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    Home / Articles / G-Free Foodie Guides

    G-Free Foodie Guide - Ingredients that MAY Contain Gluten

    Posted On Jun 25, 2010 · Updated On Sep 9, 2020

    G-Free Foodie Guide - Ingredients that MAY Contain Gluten

    These items could contain gluten -if you see them on an ingredient list, you need more information.

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    Use this G-Free Foodie Guide to Ingredients that May Contain Gluten as a resource for choosing safe gluten-free foods and cosmetics.  The ingredients listed here could contain gluten, and the origins of the ingredient should be known before you consume or use a product containing an ingredient from this list.

    Please see our G-Free Foodie Guide to Ingredient Names for Gluten for a list of items that definitely contain Gluten.

    The G-Free Foodie Team will update this list as needed.  Please let us know if we missed something!

    Remember the G-Free Foodie rule for safe eating: "If you don't know, then NO!"

    • Anti-Caking Ingredients
    • Artificial Color
    • Artificial Flavoring
    • Binders
    • Bouillon, cubes or powder
    • Broth
    • Caramel
    • Color, coloring
    • Cereal
    • Cheese/ Blue Cheese, Bleu Cheese (starting molds may be introduced on bread crumbs)
    • Curry powder (spices sometimes contain undisclosed flour to improve flow)
    • Demiglace
    • Dextrins
    • Emulsifiers
    • Excipients
    • Farina
    • Fillers
    • Flavor, Flavoring
    • Food Starch
    • Glucose Syrup
    • Gluten
    • Gum Hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP)
    • Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)
    • Ketchup
    • Leavening Maltodextrin
    • Maltose
    • Miso
    • Modified Food Starch
    • Mustard (wheat flour may be a hidden ingredient)
    • Mustard Powder
    • Natural Flavor, Natural Flavoring
    • Rice Syrup (may use barley enzymes)
    • Seasoning
    • Shortening (possible added vitamin E from wheat germ)
    • Shoyu (soy sauce)
    • Smoke Flavoring
    • Soba Noodles
    • Sour cream
    • Soup Base
    • Soy Sauce
    • Spices (may contain flour to improve flow)
    • Stabilizers
    • Starch
    • Stock, pre-made Stock cubes or powder
    • Textured vegetable protein (TVP, same as HVP)
    • Vanilla or other flavored extracts
    • Vegetable gum
    • Vegetable shortening (possible added vitamin E from wheat germ)
    • Vitamin E

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    1. Agripina Levron says

      June 28, 2010 at 1:58 pm

      Had difficulty viewing the website in Firefox on the Mac, but apart from that loved the post! 🙂

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