Gluten-free diet
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A gluten-free diet is a diet completely free of ingredients derived from gluten containing cereals, wheat, oats, barley and rye. This diet must be strictly followed by sufferers of celiac disease.
Special care must be taken when checking ingredients lists as gluten may come in forms such as vegetable proteins and starch, cornflour (when derived from wheat instead of maize), maltodextrin and glucose syrup. Many common ingredients contain wheat derivatives, which make following this diet hard.
This diet rules out all main breads and most convenience foods, and many countries do not require labelling of gluten containing products. However new product labelling standards are enforcing the labelling of gluten-containing ingredients.
See also
- Wikibooks Cookbook article on Gluten-Free cooking (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Gluten-Free)