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Oceanspray And Fruits In General

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fakename Contributor
fakename
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I was going to call them and I've seen their FAQ but I noticed that they don't mention fruit. Now some fruit is dusted with gluten -do you know if oceanspray does this? Do I have enough info. or should I call them?

Thanks

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Skylark Collaborator
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What fruit is dusted with gluten?

GFreeMO Proficient
GFreeMO
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I was going to call them and I've seen their FAQ but I noticed that they don't mention fruit. Now some fruit is dusted with gluten -do you know if oceanspray does this? Do I have enough info. or should I call them?

Thanks

Never heard of any fruit being dusted with gluten. Ocean Spray makes juices and they are gluten free. I drink the cran grape and cranapple daily.

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Why would someone dust fruit with wheat? I would think that might make it spoil faster. or at the least give it a weird sliminess on the outside.

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
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What fruit is dusted with gluten?

None that I have ever encountered.

Skylark Collaborator
Skylark
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None that I have ever encountered.

Thanks. That one threw me for a loop. I've never seen gluten-dusted fruit either.

fakename Contributor
fakename
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Why would someone dust fruit with wheat? I would think that might make it spoil faster. or at the least give it a weird sliminess on the outside.

Well some dates for instance, are so coated in order to keep the fruits from sticking together as I've heard.

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kareng Grand Master
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When wheat flour is damp it gets sticky. Think of the home made glue from kindergarten.

Dusting dates with it would be gross, I think.

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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dried date pieces are regularly dusted in oat flour to prevent sticking. it is, however, the only dried fruit - and fruit that is "just fruit" of any kind - I know of that is processed as such.

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
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Well some dates for instance, are so coated in order to keep the fruits from sticking together as I've heard.

"...as I've heard."

Please identify the specific brand of dates and your source of evidence for that. I do not give credibility to things you "have heard," unless I know from whom you heard them.

Whether oats are gluten, in the sense used by celiacs, remains under debate.

Juliebove Rising Star
Juliebove
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"...as I've heard."

Please identify the specific brand of dates and your source of evidence for that. I do not give credibility to things you "have heard," unless I know from whom you heard them.

Whether oats are gluten, in the sense used by celiacs, remains under debate.

My health food store sells chopped dates coated in oats, I don't know the brand. Much of what the sell is bought in bulk and repackaged. I think this is very common for chopped dates though.

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Oats make more sense then wheat flour. In the US they have to list the ingredients so I think they would have to say oats if you have a problem with them.

Takala Enthusiast
Takala
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Chopped Dates Rolled In Oat Flour. Ingredients: dates, oat flour

$3.29 a pound. Nuts Online.com

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To be fair to Nuts Online, they also have gluten free stuff, including dried fruit: Open Original Shared Link

While the official Medical Inquiry as to whether or not Oats are gluten is out, oats not specifically grown in dedicated fields and handled on dedicated equipment that does not do wheat, rye, or barley may be cross contaminated. Some people do seem to react to oats altho they are not technically the same grass family at all.

As to the Ocean Spray products, call the manufacturer. The bag I have not opened yet looks safe and has Ingredients: cranberries, sugar.

I have other eaten dried cranberries that I am pretty sure I have reacted to on a hit and miss basis. These were generic packed dried cranberries, store house brands, that had Ingredients: cranberries, sugar, sunflower oil.

I am pretty sure that the sunflower oil these cranberry packers use, may not be processed in a dedicated facility. And sometimes it is difficult to find dried cranberries without that oil goo on it. Any sort of bulk item is going to have some risk to it.

I just ate raw sunflower seeds from a clean bag for the past three days, and nothing. It took me a long time to figure out that one has to be careful about sunflower seed products. Recently the retailer I bought these from, changed distributors and now I cannot use this brand as the new bags say "processed on equipment that processes wheat and soy." And these are RAW sunflower seeds.

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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"...as I've heard."

Please identify the specific brand of dates and your source of evidence for that. I do not give credibility to things you "have heard," unless I know from whom you heard them.

Whether oats are gluten, in the sense used by celiacs, remains under debate.

I have never seen date pieces that are NOT coated in oat flour. Every store, every package, even those in cereals. Whole dates are an entirely different thing. (And if you've ever eaten whole dates, you know why!) So, in this case, I certainly couldn't point to a single brand, because it's every single one I've ever seen from those at Trader Joe's to SunMaid's date pieces at Safeway to the bulk stuff at Whole Foods.

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
Posted

Thanks, Tiffany. Dates aren't something that are part of my diet, so I don't know a lot about them.

gflooser Contributor
gflooser
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i got a list from oceanspray a few months ago. they are the only brand of cranberry juice and dried cranberries i will eat because they are safe!!! drink the juice every day!!!

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