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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