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Alternative Grains Cause You Trouble?

Katea

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Katea Rookie
Katea
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Hi,

I've been on the gluten-free diet for about 10 days (third time as was on gluten challenge for testing) before I made some fruit bars using milet flakes and quinoa grains. I seemed to have similar reaction to getting glutenned and it took a few days to recover. To check if the bars were in fact the cause (recipe from a gluten-free cook book) I tried some again a few days later and had another GI reaction. :(

Is this something that is common? I susppose it may be a contamination issue and in fact the quinoa packaging does not claim it to be gluten-free (the millet flakes packaging does). Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Gfresh404
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Initially, after going gluten-free some people cannot tolerate grains at all. My guess is that the structure of molecules is very similar and since your body is still on "high alert" it thinks these gluten free grains actually contain gluten.

One other thing to think about is the fact that most gluten free grains (minus oats) contain mostly insoluble fiber which is very rough on the GI tract. If you're having trouble with quinoa and millet, just stick with rice for a while and see how that goes. Or if you have to just avoid all grains as much as possible for a while and slowly reintroduce them back into your diet.

Good luck!

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ang1e0251
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What were the other ingredients in your bars? You said fruit which I had a very hard time with in the beginning. What else was in them?

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What were the other ingredients in your bars? You said fruit which I had a very hard time with in the beginning. What else was in them?

Some fruits actually harder on the system than others. If you are going to eat apples, take of the skin. Bananas should be ok and most other fruits, just take off the skin.

Also, make sure to eat fruits first before anything else since they digest so quickly and wait 20 minutes before eating anything else.

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Katea
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What were the other ingredients in your bars? You said fruit which I had a very hard time with in the beginning. What else was in them?

Hi ang1e0251,

There was a mixture of: dried cranberries, raisins, sunflower, pumpkin, linseed and sesame seeds. dairy free margarine, sugar, golden syrup and eggs. I am ok with eggs otherwise and the seeds or fruit weer not something I supsected?

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