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  1. psawyer
    Welcome to the board, and welcome to the process of learning to read labels. The Milky Way bar contains gluten (barley malt), and is not safe for us. Gluten, defined in terms of celiac disease, is a protein found in three grains: wheat, rye and barley. Oats are generally contaminated with wheat, and a minority of us also react to pure oats. The list...
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    Why on earth would flavor be added to butter? Gluten-free or not, I would personally not choose that product. Here are the ingredients from the butter we use: Cream, Salt, May Contain Colour.
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    ARCHIVED Taco Bell

    psawyer replied to fourtoone's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Yeast extract is gluten-free, unless something foreign is added to it. It does, however, contain MSG which is often mistakenly thought to contain gluten.
  4. psawyer
    Forum members can not see IP addresses, nor can they see the private information in member profiles. Moderators can see the IP address from which a post came.
  5. psawyer
    There are 22 ingredients listed. They must be listed in descending order by weight. If they were all of equal weight, then at most 4.5% of the product would be the amount of the last ingredient. There is some gluten present, but not very much.I wouldn't touch it, but some might. This does not belong in the recipes section. I am moving it to gluten-free...
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    Actually, it is not selective. Both ingredient lists list the exact same nine ingredients, in the same order. The difference is that the second one also has allergen information embedded. Allergen information is required on the retail package, and placing it in parentheses after the affected ingredient(s) is one permissible way to do it. An alternative...
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    If we are talking about a case which contains packages intended for individual retail sale, then there is no requirement to list ingredients on the outer case at all. The Canadian Celiac Association lists glucose as "allowed," being "a common sugar used as sweetener." The manufacturing process yields pure sugar, which is gluten-free.
  8. psawyer
    Your results indicate Marsh IIIB. The Marsh scale measures the degree of damage to the villi. It ranges from I (minimal damage) to IV (total destruction). You have (or had) severe damage to your villi. The probable cause is celiac disease.
  9. psawyer
    There are some things the board is programmed to do automatically. One of them is to enforce the case in the title such that the first character in every space-delimited token is upper case, and the rest are all lower case. This prevents "shouting" in topic titles. But it can cause confusion when a token begins with a punctuation mark, or contains an abbreviation...
  10. psawyer
    Brewer's yeast, the spent yeast from fermenting beer, can not be labeled as simply "yeast." It must say "brewer's yeast." It is used for flavoring, not leavening.
  11. psawyer
    No, it doesn't.
  12. psawyer
    The Canadian Celiac Association considers tocopherols to be safe in food, without concern. I don't know why this would be different.
  13. psawyer
    Many people have the genes but do not ever develop celiac disease. My understanding is that about one in ten with the genes get celiac disease. That is a high enough ratio to justify testing first-degree relatives of diagnosed persons with celiac disease.
  14. psawyer
    True. They are now owned by Clorox.
  15. psawyer
    Welcome to the world of litigation. There is no legal definition in the US of "gluten-free," so it means whatever the plaintiff's lawyer can convince the jury it ought to mean. As a result, fewer and fewer manufacturers are making gluten-free claims. All it means is that since they don't test, they will not accept legal responsibility if a supplier inadvertently...
  16. psawyer
    It appears to be a dead site. The registration is still valid, hidden behind a proxy. DNS finds a non-responsive server address at 174.129.224.137 - but it doesn't lead to much. The reverse trace is to: ec2-174-129-224-137.compute-1.amazonaws.com. That domain is similar to the well-known one named like the biggest river in South America, but is not a match...
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    We asked Scott, and his reply was, "FB is a personal web page...so the answer is it would break the rules." He added, "They can link to it in their personal profile area...which is where they should share their personal links/sites."
  18. psawyer
    You are right, as to the part of the picture you are seeing. YOU will behave the same, whether or not you have documentation of your disability. But that isn't the end of it. Celiac disease is a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Others must respect and make reasonable accommodation if you have the documentation. Consider schools...
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    ARCHIVED Alcohol

    psawyer replied to Chanahan-6's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Changes to tolerance level are fairly common. It is not clear why, as alcohol is generally believed to be absorbed via the stomach, not the intestine. During the healing process, reactions can occur to just about anything, and may mimic the reaction to gluten. That does not mean that you ingested gluten--only that your body has not yet healed completely.
  20. psawyer
    Silencio, from the information at the posted link, there is no way to know if they are gluten-free. Conspicuously missing is an ingredient list.
  21. psawyer
    Maybe you will get really lucky and one of them will lay a Faberge egg.
  22. psawyer

    ARCHIVED Alcohol

    psawyer replied to Chanahan-6's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Me! I do.
  23. psawyer
    Bacon. Ham. Eggs, prepared just about any way. Most sausages (gluten is occasionally present, but rarely). Hash browned potatoes. Chex.
  24. psawyer
    Here is my understanding. If you have less than 25 posts, you are a "New Community Member" and have one circle. If you have at least 25, but less than 75, you are a "Community Member" and have three circles. If you have 75 or more posts, you are an "Advanced Community Member" and have six circles. Members with 501 or more posts can choose a custom...
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    I'm not really sure what you are asking about? I don't see dots under names. Perhaps you mean the circles under the title that appears under the person's avatar? They are a reflection of the number of posts the member has made.
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