How to Look for Gluten in Ingredient Lists
The first step to finding out whether a food is gluten-free is to read the label. And, the key to efficient label-reading is: knowing what to look for. [more…]
How to Check with Food Manufacturers about Gluten Ingredients
Even if a food label doesn’t show any obvious sources of gluten, you may want to check with the manufacturer to make sure your food doesn’t have any hidden sources. [more…]
How to Interpret Company Responses about Gluten
When you call a company to find out whether its product is gluten-free, you get one of a few responses. Interpreting these responses to your inquiries sometimes requires a little inference, deduction, [more…]
Safe Foods for Gluten-Free Diets
If you're on a gluten-free diet, you need to know what foods are safe to eat. Gluten-free foods are not hard to find — if you know what to include on your shopping list. [more…]
Foods to Avoid on a Gluten-Free Diet
The key to a gluten-free diet is knowing what to avoid — whether you're dining out or making meals at home. Luckily, the list of forbidden foods for a gluten-free diet is a lot shorter than the list of [more…]
How to Snack Gluten-Free
Your gluten-free diet can satisfy your appetite for snacks — whether you're looking for guilty indulgences or healthy nibbles between meals. Although you still need to check ingredients carefully, gluten-free [more…]
Celiac Disease and Other Autoimmune Conditions
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease itself and is associated other autoimmune diseases, which means that if you have one of the following conditions, you may want to be tested for a sensitivity to [more…]
Health Issues Associated with Celiac Disease
Opting out of a gluten-free diet can increase your risk for larger health problems if you have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Certain conditions are associated with celiac disease and if you don’t [more…]
How Gluten Attacks the Intestine in Celiacs
When someone with celiac disease eats the gluten found in wheat, rye, or barley, everything goes along just fine until the gluten reaches the small intestine. [more…]
How to Get Fiber on a Gluten-Free Diet
Fiber is key to keeping the gastrointestinal plumbing moving smoothly, which is especially important if you have celiac disease or if you are sensitive to gluten. [more…]
How the Gluten-Free Diet Fosters Weight Loss
Weight loss weighs heavily on many people's minds. The good news is that the gluten-free diet may be the key to losing and maintaining a healthy weight. [more…]
How to Gain Weight on the Gluten-Free Diet
Some people who have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity are underweight because their gluten issues prevent them from absorbing nutrients. So you may actually need to gain weight to be at the peak of [more…]
How to Gain Athletic Advantage by Being Gluten-Free
Some athletes are afraid to go gluten-free because they’re worried they won’t get enough carbohydrates in their diets to sustain their intense energy needs. Carbs before, during, and after training or [more…]
How to Avoid Gluten Cross-Contamination in Your Kitchen
When you’re sharing a kitchen with gluten, gluten can contaminate (or glutenate?) your food in several ways. Crumbs seem to throw themselves off gluten-containing breads and other foods, turning perfectly [more…]
How to Use Kitchen Tools in a Gluten/Gluten-Free Kitchen
You don’t need to buy a separate set of pots, pans, tools, and utensils if you’re preparing gluten-free meals alongside foods with gluten, but you do need to pay attention to how you use the ones you have [more…]
The Solution for Toast in a Gluten/Gluten-Free Kitchen
If you’ve ever looked inside a toaster or toaster oven you know that they’re full of crumbs, some of which probably contain gluten if you’re sharing a kitchen with gluten. That means your gluten-free bread [more…]
How to Spread Bread the Gluten-Free Way
If you share your kitchen with gluten, you'll want to master the action of the gob drop — a critical maneuver to avoid contamination with crumbs that are not gluten-free. [more…]
The Essentials of Sharing a Kitchen with Gluten
If your household includes some family members who cannot tolerate gluten and others who don't need or want to give up wheat and gluten-containing foods, you can manage your kitchen to serve everyone's [more…]
The Essentials of Celiac Disease
Celiac disease is the extreme form of gluten intolerance. An autoimmune disease, the symptoms of celiac disease range from gastrointestinal problems to behavior and mental health issues, as well as association [more…]
The Essentials of Eating Gluten-Free
Eating gluten-free involves more than just avoiding wheat. Other grains — rye, barley, and triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye) — contain gluten, and because of the way oats are processed, they’re a food [more…]
The Essentials of Gluten Sensitivity
You can fall anywhere within a wide range of sensitivity to gluten, with celiac disease the extreme end of the spectrum. Being sensitive to gluten can affect you in many ways — from a mild headache when [more…]
Substitutions for Gluten-Free Cooking
Making food substitutions is common in any type of cooking, including gluten-free cooking. As you adjust to gluten-free cooking, you'll realize that you can choose from a wide array of gluten-free ingredients [more…]
Grains to Avoid on a Gluten-Free Diet
If you're sensitive to gluten, you may know to avoid all forms of wheat in food. Cooking the gluten-free way also means avoiding other grains that contain gluten — grains that you may not be too familiar [more…]
Foods to Avoid when Cooking Gluten-Free
If you're sensitive to gluten, there's no getting around the need to ban certain foods from your diet: Don't cook with them, don't eat them, and (for some people) don't even touch them. The following list [more…]
