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  1. psawyer
    I was 45 when I asked my long-term primary care physician to test me. He said it was a rare childhood disease--I was too old--but he made the referral.
  2. psawyer
    It is widely accepted that distillation renders the distillate gluten-free because the protein molecule (the gluten) is much too large to vaporize, even under heat. I don't understand how making beer could vaporize what a still can not. There are some who react to distilled spirits, but my own thought on that is that they are reacting to fragments of the...
  3. psawyer
    This topic is more than a year old. Some information may be out of date. chelsra, if you have specific evidence of gluten in the adhesive or paper, please provide it. I have never found proof that this is anything other than a celiac myth. Flavor might possibly contain gluten, but, again, this is rumor without much proven fact. There are plenty of...
  4. psawyer
    This particular forum on celiac.com is described on the main page thus: It is not intended to be about products that are labeled gluten-free. If it were that simple, we would not need this discussion forum. Here, in the Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications section, we talk about products that are not labeled gluten-free, but...
  5. psawyer
    I do not see anything in that ingredient list that would be a gluten source.
  6. psawyer
    Please cite your source for this claim. I have been gluten-free for twelve years, and have yet to find a single case of MFS being wheat. In both Canada and the US, if it was wheat, that fact would be required to be clearly disclosed.
  7. psawyer
    No possible gluten source that I can see there.
  8. psawyer
    I agree with Sylvia. Given the number of members here who use it without issue, I would suspect that there is something other than gluten in Hormel pepperoni which causes you to react.
  9. psawyer
    Takala, I don't understand. You seem to agree with me on the facts, but post a lengthy rebuttal. I did not comment on Domino's either way. My comment was generic with regard to the idea of dedicated ovens. There are a number of establishments offering gluten-free pizza in Canada and the United States. To my knowledge, none of them have dedicated ovens...
  10. psawyer
    A dedicated oven is not going to happen. There is just not enough volume. Commercial ovens are very expensive. Proper preparation procedures, with clean prep areas and utensils, can work with a shared oven.
  11. psawyer
    For the third time, Unilever will clearly disclose any gluten in any of their products. If you do not see a gluten grain named on the label, there is no gluten in the product. The product that mentions barley contains small amounts of gluten. The other product is gluten-free.
  12. psawyer
    If you wish to add to this discussion, please start a topic in this forum, and refer to this thread. The Multi-quote function will allow you to cite a post here in another topic. I will merge it into this discussion.
  13. psawyer
    If you wish to add to this discussion, please post here Appropriate comments will be merged into the thread.
  14. psawyer
    To repeat, Unilever will clearly disclose all gluten sources on the label. If you don't see the name of a gluten grain, the product is gluten-free.
  15. psawyer
    As I have said many times before, the Canadian Celiac Association considers all tocopherols to be safe in food for people with celiac disease. If is is safe to eat, it is safe to put in my hair. Even if the original source was wheat, there is no detectable gluten in the resulting ingredient. The tocopherol then becomes a minor ingredient (the 18th in order...
  16. psawyer
    I'm back to say that I forgot to mention toasters. You can't share a toaster. You just can't clean all the crumbs out. You can't. The good news is that it doesn't cost a fortune to buy a toaster.
  17. psawyer
    A modern dishwasher will do a fine job of cleaning most items. We had a mixed-use kitchen for years without any trouble. Thorough rinsing prior to placing contaminated items in the dishwasher will help. A few things to be careful of, though: A pot used regularly to boil pasta is likely to develop stuck-on residue that the dishwasher cannot remove....
  18. psawyer
    Listing the top 8 allergens identified by FALCPA is indeed required by law. That covers wheat, but not barley, rye and oats. Kraft go beyond that, and will always disclose rye, barley and oats, even though the law does not require them to. There are a number of other companies with similar policies, including General Mills, Con Agra, and Unilever.
  19. psawyer
    What she said. The "dedicated facility" is an overrated myth. Unless you can trace the origin of every single ingredient, the final production facility means nothing.
  20. psawyer
    True then, true now. ConAgra will clearly disclose gluten on the label.
  21. psawyer
    This is normal. The people in the call centers who respond to such questions routinely ask for this sort of information. They do need it. If you are in doubt about a product, ALWAYS keep the package so you can refer to it when the manufacturer's rep asks these questions. Ingredients and facilities change. Some companies have more than one plant. The production...
  22. psawyer
    I have never had a problem with M&Ms, but I don't have any specific experience with the peanut butter ones.
  23. psawyer
    Sweet potatoes are botanically rather different from potatoes. They belong to the Convolvulaceae family. Nightshades are the Solanaceae family, which includes regular potatoes. Yams are not the same as sweet potatoes, although they are often confused. Yams belong to yet another family: Dioscoreaceae.
  24. psawyer
    Not my experience. And, based on what I have read here since 2004, not the experience of the majority here. There is a small but vocal minority supporting this view.
  25. psawyer
    Your doctor made a sweeping generalization. It is true that some gluten-free baked products are higher in calories than similar wheat based ones. Choose carefully. But in many cases the extra calories are because the food is denser in texture, not because of added sugar.
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