When avoiding gluten due to an IgG reactivity or Celiac disease, please avoid the following foods unless you can confirm they are gluten-free:
Foods with gluten (some are hidden sources) include:
- Atta flour
- Bacon (check ingredients)
- Barley
- Barley grass
- Barley malt
- Beer (unless gluten-free)
- Bran
- Breading
- Brewers yeast
- Bulgur
- Coating mixes
- Communion wafers
- Condiments
- Couscous
- Croutons
- Dinkle (spelt)
- Durham
- Einkorn
- Emmer (durham wheat)
- Farina
- Farmed fish
- Farro (called emmer wheat, except in Italy)
- Food starch
- French Fries and other fried foods (in the coating or the oil used to fry)
- Fu (a dried form of gluten)
- Gliadin
- Gluten
- Gluten peptides
- Glutenin
- Graham
- Gravies
- Hydrolyzed wheat gluten
- Hydrolyzed wheat protein
- Ice cream (may contain flour as an anticrystallizing agent)
- Imitation fish
- Kamut
- Lunch meats
- Maida (indian wheat flour)
- Malt
- Malt vinegar
- Marinades
- Matzah (aka matzo)
- Mir (a wheat and rye cross)
- Nutritional and herbal supplements (source gluten-free supplements)
- Oats (look for gluten-free oats)
- Panko (bread crumbs)
- Pilafs (containing orzo)
- Prepared foods (often contain gluten)
- Processed cereals
- Rye
- Salad dressings
- Sauces
- Seitan
- Self-basting poultry
- Semolina
- Some medications (prescription or over the counter)
- Soup bases and bouillon
- Soy or rice drinks (may have barley malt or malt enzymes used during manufacturing)
- Soy sauce (except for a wheat-free version)
- Spelt
- Spice mixtures (often contain wheat as an anticaking agent, filler, or thickening agent)
- Starch
- Stuffings
- Syrups
- Tea (in the flavorings or the glue used on the bag)
- Thickeners
- Triticale
- Vegetable gum
- Wheat (bran, germ, gluten, grass, malt, starch)
- Wheat berries
- Wheat flour (all types, including all-purpose, cake, enriched, graham, high protein or high gluten, and pastry)
- Worcestershire sauce
Hidden non-food sources of gluten for those with Celiac disease:
- Charcoal briquets
- Dry Wall
- Envelopes (in the glue)
- Glue
- Glue Sticks
- Herbal supplements
- Lipstick, lipgloss, lip moisturizers
- Lotion or hand cream
- Makeup
- Medications
- Play Dough
- Shampoo
- Soaps
- Stamps
- Spray Starch
- Talcum/Body Powder
- Toothpaste
- Vitamins