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Utz Potatoe Chips....


mela14

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mela14 Enthusiast

I had a reaction to something and am still feeling it today..fatigue, dizzy, muscle pain, headache.

I am back tracking everything. Last night I tried some new Utz, natural preservative free potatoe chips (salt free). today I am feeling like I've been glutened or had soy. I don't think it has either one. It is cooked with cottenseed oil.

I've been pretty good on the diet.....just dealing with other health problems and trying to work out the diet.

the only other thing I had at the same time was salted pastachio nuts.

One of the two made me really sick.

thanks,

mel


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Carriefaith Enthusiast

Do any of their chips contain gluten? If so, maybe there was cross-contamination on the lines. Also, if the pastachio nuts were roasted there may be wheat on them, or maybe they were contaminated.

Hope you feel better soon.

KaitiUSA Enthusiast

I love the UTZ chips and never had a problem with them. Maybe there was cross contamination in the bag you had or maybe you reacted to something else in it.

terri Contributor

I got sick off of pistachio nuts that I bought in the grocery store. I have since learned that they sometime flour the belts of the nut factories and sometimes spray them. I now get all my nuts from Nuts 4 U where they understand Celiac and even sell gluten free mixes. I was in an upscale restaurant and ordered a salad that had pistachio nuts on it and the chef said no way for the nuts. So my money is that the nuts made you ill not the Utz.

Terri

mela14 Enthusiast

Thanks for the help. i'm keeping away from both. I am still feeling sick but hopefully tomorrow will be better.....I am going for my monthly Immunoglobulin infusion and need all the strength I can muster up.

MySuicidalTurtle Enthusiast

Utz site lists which are glutenfree.

I eat them like crazy when I am up north.

There should not have been an issue with them.

Mom22 Apprentice

Mel,

You can check the Utz website at www.utzsnacks.com

If you click on the icon on the left "Utz Products" it will then come up with a listing you can click on for their gluten free products. I actually live 10 minutes from their huge plant. Their promotions coordinator's daughter was just recently diagnosed with celiac and at our last local celiac support group meeting, Utz sent 12 cases of gluten free chips and snacks for free! I highly support them and we buy alot of their chips.

Mom 2 2


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Susan123 Rookie

I eat the UTZ salt free potato chips (regular) and I have never had any problem. I eat them daily.

terri Contributor

Utz are the only brand you'll find in our house. ;) I wrote them about their new natural brand chips and salsa and he replied :

Our natural line of chips are gluten free. We do not make the salsa. It should be okay but I cannot guarantee it. Don

Dir., Technical Services

Utz Quality Foods, Inc.

900 High Street

Hanover, PA 17332-1639

800-367-7629, ext. 367

Fax: 717-637-4345

dkline@utzsnacks.com

I then wrote about where their pretzels were manufactured as I worry about cross contamination and his reply was:

Dear Terri:

All our pretzels are manufactured at a dedicated bakery facility where only pretzels are produced.

Dir., Technical Services

Utz Quality Foods, Inc.

900 High Street

Hanover, PA 17332-1639

800-367-7629, ext. 367

Fax: 717-637-4345

dkline@utzsnacks.com

Happy eating!

Terri

mela14 Enthusiast

Thanks for all the Utz info! I can't wait to snack on them later.

I am going to keep away from the pistachios....not only from a gluten standpoint but also because of bladder problems.

As for the sick feeling I was getting it seems that I am also relapsing with a virus that I had 2 weeks ago! Fever blisters are back on the lip today and I feel very achy and fluish. 2 weeks ago I had it with fever.......

when there is so much going on it is hard to tell what is coming from what.

this bug seems to be going around.

take care,

  • 2 years later...
peanut369 Newbie

Well, I gotta wonder. I eat only the Utz that is listed as gluten free and doesn't list casein or milk products, since I am very senstive to gluten and casien both. I thought Uts were great, too. But there was this ONE bag, I swear it's the ONLY option for contamination. I got sick for two days. I'm now in the third day, and it's not a flu bug. I don't dare eat any more, and the only thing I can figure is some milk/casein got in with the barbeque chips. I get the same exact response from casien as gluten. Anyone else?

  • 2 weeks later...
melmak5 Contributor

I know someone on this forum warned me 4+ months ago... but I finally figured out why I was experience sever abdominal pain, D and rectal bleeding this weekend

Utz Potato Chips

I tried their kettle chips.

Big mistake, huge.

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