Products Containing Gluten

Products containing gluten are dangerous for health in diseases such as celiac disease and wheat allergy. Find out which foods you should avoid.

Products containing gluten are dangerous for health in diseases such as celiac disease and wheat allergy. Find out which foods you should avoid.

Gluten is a mixture of insoluble proteins of some cereals (wheat, rye, barley, oats). It is gluten that gives flour dough stickiness and elasticity. In modern grain crops, the content of gluten is increased, which can hide a danger to human health with the systematic use of gluten-containing products. Gluten worsens the processes of food digestion in the intestines, contributing to the disruption of metabolic processes in the body and a number of diseases.

A gluten-free diet is a nutritional system that involves a complete rejection of the use of products containing gluten. Such a diet is mandatory for such a disease as celiac disease, as well as for some allergic diseases (for example, with an allergy to wheat).

Recently, scientists have come to the conclusion that a gluten-free diet can have a much more positive effect on the body of a healthy person. So, by giving up gluten, you can significantly improve digestion, normalize metabolism, and also get rid of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Which products contain gluten?

Cereals

• Wheat in all kinds. Avoiding gluten means excluding the use of all products that may contain wheat (bakery products, wheat starch, wheat protein, semolina, various additives and thickeners containing wheat protein fractions).
• Rye, rye flour and fermented wort.
• Barley in all kinds. It is necessary to exclude the use of barley flour, barley, pearl barley, barley malt and maltose products.
• Oats, oat flour, oat groats, oat flakes.
• Macaroni products, pasta, breads, cereal mixtures, instant cereals, whole grain products.

Dairy products and sweets

It is necessary to abandon all types of dairy products containing cereals as additives. These include drinkable yogurts with cereals, condensed dairy products. Thickeners and flavors included in yogurt may also contain gluten.

As a rule, gluten is found in cheese products with vegetable fats and ice cream (see composition). Gluten can also be found in cheeses.

Gluten can be contained in various sweets, even if flour is not used for their preparation. For example, gluten can be part of quick-dissolving mixes for preparing drinks, pastila, Turkish delight, halva and other types of sweets. Carefully study the composition of the meringue product before buying it.

Meat products and semi-finished products

Fresh meat, fish and poultry do not contain gluten and can be consumed without fear. However, this cannot be said about canned meat and fish, sausage products and semi-finished products. The production technology involves the addition of special mixtures containing gluten to such products.

You should also be careful with canned vegetables and crab sticks. Before buying such products, carefully study the composition.

"Suspicious" products

There is a group of products that can potentially contain gluten, and it is advisable to avoid them as well. First of all, these are products with an unknown source of origin or ambiguous information about the product indicated on the package. Such products include:

• Soy sauce. There is no gluten in the original soy sauce, as it is made only from soybeans. However, some manufacturers add wheat extracts to it.
• Dextrins (sweeteners). As a rule, dextrin is made from corn, but it can also contain wheat.
• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein. Athletes on a gluten-free diet should be careful when choosing sports nutrition.
• Caramel shade. As a rule, it is prepared from corn syrup, but it can also contain maltose syrup, which is prepared from barley.