Household Food With Gluten

Video Transcript

"The items around your house that would have gluten would be obviously anything of wheat derivative. You know, you're looking at your pastas and things like that, but I think the rule of thumb would be if something has more than say four items in it it probably has some kind of emulsifier or gluten component to it. For instance, if you look at butter it just has two ingredients, it's butter and salt. If you get a product like this which is a fat-free item, you look on the back and there is probably about sixteen items and then, of course you're looking here and it says 'modified food starch' which brings me to hidden sources of gluten. You can look at this and say, 'well, it doesn't have any of the synonyms of gluten so it must be ok', but that's not true. For instance, modified food starch, if you look it up by definition according to the FDA, is wheat. It doesn't say wheat in the word, it says food so you're thinking it should be ok. If it says modified corn starch, modified tapioca starch, modified potato starch it's ok, modified food starch, not ok. Modified food starch is really prominent in kids candy so you have to really, really look at the labels for that. There is a lot of other hidden sources as well. Monosodium glutamate which is MSG found in a lots of things as a preservative, modified food starch as I previously discussed, spices get only organic because otherwise you have a chance of gluten, texturized vegetable protein, malt vinegar, malt flavoring, vegetable gum, soy sauce, stabilizers and emulsifiers. If you see the word stabilizer or emulsifier stay away it's going to have gluten, but even teriyaki sauce has soy in it so that would be a big no-no, so it really takes a lot of knowledge in food label reading to successfully stay on a gluten-free diet. Oh, and the last thing which is a hidden gluten domain would be children's Play-Doh which it actually says on it now 'contains wheat' it doesn't say gluten it says wheat, but it does have gluten in it and if you have any children under two you will know that they will put things in their mouth to explore them. It's not toxic, but it's toxic to a child that has a gluten intolerance."