While I love bread, and feel so lucky to be pretty much allergy free, I know it can be tough on those who do have a serious food allergy. I once had a friend with coeliac disease. I remember how careful she had to be with what she ate and all the questions she asked at restaurants before ordering. I made a gluten free cake for her, but now I can't remember what kind of flour I used (of course).It shouldn't be too hard for my friend to find good gluten free goodies now, though. According to the Orlando Sentinel there's such a demand now that it would be foolish for producers to ignore it. Apparently most health experts thought of coeliac as a European disease, but after a 2003 study by the University of Maryland which found that 1 in 133 Americans suffered from it coeliac disease jumped into the spotlight.
It used to be that there were only a few products at health food stores, but now you can find gluten free products anywhere.
9-20-2008 @3:14PM Leslie said... Actually I find gluten-free products to be annoying in the way they are held up as "allergy-free" standards. My kid is Milk, Egg, Nut and peanut allergic. He can have gluten. The problem is when we now ask if suppliers have allergen-free items he can have, usually they wave a gluten free product as if that will solve everything. So while I think it's awesome for those who are avoiding gluten, there is a whole market of people (kids especially) for whom this is irrelevant.
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9-22-2008 @9:24AM Iscariote said... I've noticed that producers of mainstream items that don't have gluten in them have taken to putting "Gluten Free" specifically on their nutritional info.
My gf is gluten free, and she literally jumped for joy when Ore-Ida started putting "Gluten Free" on their packaging for tater tots.
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