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Sorry. I wrote about TEXTURED vegetable protein.

modified food starch can be questionable..most of the time it is ok but most doesn't cut it and therefore it must be checked on.

The gluten free bible has a lot of inaccuracies...they say certain things are not gluten free that are and vice versa...the book really is bad for new people to the diet

I have run into quite a few things that had gluten in the modified food starch.

Absolutely:

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Oh, wow...I didn't even notice the name change until it was pointed out. Avatars and signatures basically remind me.

And Vincent, people really do look at and take the labels of newbie, advanced member, etc. seriously: Open Original Shared Link

I just noticed the new blue squares because they had doubled and I found it hard not to notice them

Are these similar to Hoodsies?

BTW, Hoodies are gluten-free....I verified w/ Hood a few months ago

Oh yeah...Modified food starch is often gluten-free...it could be wheat, but it could also be corn, rice, etc.

Textured vegetable protein isn't gluten-free for us...

Colgate is close to or completely gluten-free (here in the US, though). Crest is also mostly gluten-free. Beware of Sensodyne and with most of these brands, watch out because the extra whitening and sensitive toothpastes, I have found, are often the ones with gluten. You can't guarantee, though, that Colgate in South Africa or any other country would be the same as in America. Companies change their ingredients from country to country.

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I have not seen the CSA product listing but the Delphi is 79 pages with each listing consisting of the company name, gluten-free products, date and method of verification, phone number, and website.

celiac3270, McCann's had higher contamination rates than Country Choice, as I recall.  None of them were consistently under the CODEX standard, however.

At the time of that study, McCanns had a contamination problem with one machine. They have since corrected it. (I found this out from Anne Lee, who spoke with the nutritionist there).

Oats are theoretically safe...contaminated not. If you eat oats, which I wouldn't do personally, but studies show you can: McCanns is the best, as well as Country Choice. Quaker is among the worst. So oats aren't universally gluten-free due to contamination, but can be.

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How cool is that? Six little blue boxes now! I'm now an "advanced community member." Wondering how the little boxes work now, I looked it up...under the members section.

If you have 30 posts or more you're an advanced community member (6)

If you have 10-29 you're a community member (3)

If you have under 10 posts, you're a new community member (1)

This update is probably in light of one member mentioning having been on the diet for a long time, but feeling less important due to "advanced member" or "newbie". COMMUNITY member stresses how long you've been here, not gluten-free. Right. Scott?

I know...the comparing thing bothers me. I have a grandmother who likes to be the center of attention and always think that she has it the worst (even though she has no serious health problems). She once compared my avoiding gluten to her avoiding certain foods due to acid reflux...

I don't know of any specific ones...I just go by the books, rather than personal experience, on this one. From the celiac.com forbidden list:

The following items may or may not contain gluten depending on where and how they are made, and it is sometimes necessary to check with the manufacturer to find out:

Artificial Color4

Artificial Flavoring6

Caramel Color1, 3

Coloring4

Dextrins1,7

Flavoring6

Food Starch1, 4

Gravy Cubes4

Ground Spices4

Maltodextrin1, 8  Miso4

Modified Food Starch1, 4

Modified Starch1, 4

Mono and Diglycerides1

Monosodium Glutimate (MSG)1, 4

Mustard Powder 4

Natural Flavoring6

Starch1, 4

Stock Cubes4

Wheat Starch5 

1) If this ingredient is made in North America it is likely to be gluten-free.

3) The problem with caramel color is it may or may not contain gluten depending on how it is manufactured. In the USA caramel color must conform with the FDA standard of identity from 21CFR CH.1. This statute says: "the color additive caramel is the dark-brown liquid or solid material resulting from the carefully controlled heat treatment of the following food-grade carbohydrates: Dextrose (corn sugar), invert sugar, lactose (milk sugar), malt syrup (usually from barley malt), molasses (from cane), starch hydrolysates and fractions thereof (can include wheat), sucrose (cane or beet)." Also, acids, alkalis and salts are listed as additives which may be employed to assist the caramelization process.

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richard,

I think that is most likely what is going on. They don't want to get in trouble since they aren't 100% sure on some of the sources of their ingredients so they won't say it is for sure gluten free.

Absolutely...I concur.

Yea...I only go to...maybe two or three movies in an entire year... whenever I want to see one I wait for it to come out on DVD. Fortunately, I don't have those pangs of guilt, being that I'm in a city that has many, many movie theatres that are doing fine...NYC sure isn't small

Sex: Male

Age: 14...and a half, lol

Date started gluten free diet: February 18, 2004

Suffer from the following on a regular basis since starting treatment:

Constipation No

Diarrhea Sometimes

Abdominal pain No

Indigestion No

Acid reflux No

Other related problems No related problems. I'm probably not much help, thankfully, because I was diagnosed early enough to avoid developing any long-term problems.

Oh, when glutened: abdominal pain/indigestion, diarrhea, very gassy

I couldn't open two other articles because they required a subscription or membership. But the one that I could open:

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Yes--my mom thought of that one...it gives validation to your bringing food in, especially if you say that you didn't know what food was available, etc.

That's just a backup, of course . I don't go up to the security people and say, "Hey, I have some food here, but I have a good excuse."

Suave is almost exclusively gluten-free.

Yep, nice to see you!

Coke is definitely gluten-free. Many other Coke products are, as well. This is the typical response you'll get from Coca-Cola, though there are modified and less-detailed versions of this:

It is...if you e-mail Coca-Cola they'll send you an e-mail like this:

Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company.

We are able to confirm that Coca-Cola classic, caffeine free Coca-Cola

classic, Coca-Cola C2, Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Lemon, Diet Coke with

Lime, caffeine free Diet Coke, Sprite, Sprite ReMix Berryclear, Diet

Sprite Zero, vanilla Coke, diet vanilla Coke, cherry Coke, Fresca, and

our 100% juice products (without added ingredients) are gluten free.

Additionally, we can tell you that all of our other products meet

Codex's definition of gluten-free, which is less than 200 ppm (0.02%)

gluten. Codex has examined the data and determined that less than 200 ppm

gluten is below the level in which people with celiac disease would

experience adverse reactions. However, at this time the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration does not have a regulatory definition of gluten-free.

We can assure you that the exact amount of gluten in these products is

very low - perhaps even zero. Some minor ingredients in these products

are manufactured from plants that gluten-sensitive people could react

to, so we are unable to state categorically that they are totally

gluten-free even though they may have undetectable levels of gluten in them.

The Codex guideline provides a very low threshold for gluten content

and exposures below this level are not expected to result in damage to

the majority of gluten-sensitive individuals. However, extremely

gluten-sensitive individuals should discuss consumption of these products with

their health care provider.

We hope that this information is helpful. Should you have additional

questions or comments, please visit our website again.

Gisele

Industry and Consumer Affairs

The Coca-Cola Company

So all the listed products are beyond a doubt gluten-free--like, zero gluten. The others meet the Codex standard (that for European gluten-free foods, as the US doesn't have one yet).

Diet coke, etc. are also beyond a doubt gluten-free. It's just products like Fanta that a very careful celiac wouldn't drink, since they're not on that list.

All Pepsi soft drinks are gluten-free.

I would have put this one in the maybe category. From everything I have read, it  is the source of the caramel coloring that makes the determination. I have also found that to be true when I have contacted manufacturers.

I agree with Donna. It's a maybe. It's very unlikely that the caramel color contains gluten, nonetheless, it CAN.

And bring a dining card or something so if someone stops you about your food, you can explain it to them and even if it's not entirely true, say you can't eat the food they have or weren't sure if they had gluten-free food.

Here's a link I found off of another group...thought it might interest those of you who buy flours and such in bulk. I'm not sure how these prices are compared to what you normally pay, but you can compare and decide:

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Well if I had a choice of getting rid of guns or doctors I'd choose guns. Even with the statistics.

I would too . The statistics are mere fun, but if you wanted to get technical and tear them apart... : the statistic only represents the accidental gun deaths, not the intentional ones. If you include the intentional deaths it would balance out more. Also, accidental gun deaths are reckless. Doctors are performing surgeries that are extremely difficult and where chances of mortality are greatly increased. Finally, if they're performing these surgeries (I am assuming that that's what's causing the death in the first place, not that he/she accidentally injects poison into you instead of a vaccine, etc. ), it's likely that the person, untreated, would have died anyway, and that the surgery was just an attempt to prevent that.