APPENDIX E
Gluten-Containing Foods
Foods That Often Contain Gluten
Beer
Blue cheese— check with the company; many are fine but not all
Bouillon cubes
Bran
Bread, breading, bread crumbs
Broth
Brown rice syrup (frequently made from barley)
Cakes
Candies
Caramel color (infrequently made from barley)
Cereal
Coating mixes
Communion wafers
Cookies
Couscous
Crab cakes
Crackers
Croutons
Dextrin (usually corn but may be derived from wheat)
Dressings
Dry roasted nuts—processing agents may contain wheat
Emergen-C in raspberry and mixed berry flavors only, the other flavors are fine.
Flour or cereal products
Flour tortillas
Fried foods
Gravy
Hot dogs
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), vegetable protein, hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP), hydrolyzed soy protein, or textured vegetable protein (TVP)—label will say “wheat”
Imitation bacon
Imitation seafood
Lunch meats
Malt or malt flavoring (usually made from barley)
Malt vinegar
Marinades
Matzo
Meatballs
Meat loaf
Meat substitutes (Tofurky and others)
Modified food starch—label will say “wheat”
Monosodium glutamate
Muffins
Oats (see section on oats below)
Pastas
Pastries
Processed meats
Rice Dream—processed w/ barley
Roux—a sauce base
Salad dressings
Sauces
Sausages (some)
Seitan
Seasoned chips and other seasoned snack foods
Seasoned rice and pasta mixes
Self-basting poultry
Soup bases
Soy-based veggie burgers
Soy sauce or soy sauce solids—wheat-free is available
Starch—label will say “wheat”Stuffing
Tamari
Textured vegetable protein—label will say “wheat”Thickeners
Vital wheat gluten found in imitation meats
Ricola cough drops
Gluten and Gluten-Free Alternatives
Contains Gluten
Gluten-Free
Barley
Triticale
Amaranth
Beans
Bulgur
Oats*
Rice
Flax
Couscous
Oat bran*
Corn
Garfava
Durum wheat
Oat fiber*
Soy
Sorghum
Farina
Rye
Potato
Millet
Graham flour
Wheat
Quinoa
Buckwheat
Kamut
Wheat bran
Tapioca
Arrowroot
Matzo
Wheat germ
Teff
Nut flours
Seitan
Wheat grass
Semolina
White flour
Spelt
Whole wheat flour