Is Wheat Grass gluten-free?

[Treen Bean]

I recently read a product label claiming to be gluten free yet it contained wheat grass and barley grass. The website claimed that most people who are allergic to wheat are allergic to the gluten. The Gluten is not found in the plant/grass part of wheat grass and barley grass. Is this true?

[ravenwoodglass]

I react to wheat and barley grass and there are others who do also. Personally I stay away from those ingredients and use great care in reading supplement labels because of those ingredients and the reaction I have gotten from them.

[Treen Bean]

I react to wheat and barley grass and there are others who do also. Personally I stay away from those ingredients and use great care in reading supplement labels because of those ingredients and the reaction I have gotten from them.

Okay... I always avoided them too. I would also imagine the risk of cross contamination would be quite high.

How can a company print "Gluten Free" on their label if the product is not truly gluten free?! We need stricter labeling laws here in the US!

[mamaw]

A wheat allergy is just that --- an allergy. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. I believe it said wheat allergy.

I stay away from wheat grass , barley grass per my doctor. Some say it is okay because it is cultivated before the flower appears. I would not take a chance...

hth

mamaw

[minniejack]

I recently read a product label claiming to be gluten free yet it contained wheat grass and barley grass. The website claimed that most people who are allergic to wheat are allergic to the gluten. The Gluten is not found in the plant/grass part of wheat grass and barley grass. Is this true?

Were you by chance going to purchase the smoothie type drink, I think the brand is Bolthouse, Boathouse, something like that? Because I put the same product down too!

[Treen Bean]

Were you by chance going to purchase the smoothie type drink, I think the brand is Bolthouse, Boathouse, something like that? Because I put the same product down too!

No, though I have put those smoothie drinks back for that same reason, too! It was a "greens" powder called Amazing Grass.

[hermitgirl]

I stopped buying the boat bolt whatever one because it always made me sick. I didn't pay that close attention, as they clam "gluten free" on their label, but they do have wheat grass and/or barley grass listed in the ingredients. Never again.