HOW TO AVOID WHEAT
To avoid wheat and wheat products ask about ingredients at restaurants and others’ homes and read food labels. The following list is not complete. Consult with a healthcare professional before making any significant changes to your diet.
- Bulgar Wheat
- Couscous
- Flour: cake and pastry, durum, gluten, graham, wheat flour, whole wheat flour
- Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)
- Semolina
- Wheat Bran
- Wheat Germ
- Wheat Starch
Note: Buckwheat is not wheat.
These foods may include Wheat. Use with caution, if at all:
- Baked Beans
- Baking Powder (Some)
- Biscuits
- Bouillon Cubes and extracts
- Breadcrumbs
- Breaded Foods
- Breads
- Cakes, Pastries or cookies (commercial or prepared)
- Canned Fish
- Cheese sauces or spreads (unless know to be wheat-free)
- Cloudy lemonade and ginger beer (some)
- Commercially prepared fruit pie fillings and jams
- Commercially prepared gravies, salad dressings, sauces, or condiments containing wheat flour
- Commercially prepared mustard
- Crackers
- Creamed or scalloped potatoes (unless thickened with cornstarch)
- Creamed or scalloped vegetables (if thickened with flour or topped with breadcrumbs)
- Creamed Products
- Egg dishes thickened with flour
- Luncheon Meats
- Malted milk and drinks
- Meat and poultry containing flour
- Meat Tenderizers (if made from monosodium glutamate [MSG])
- Muffins
- Mustard powder (some)
- Pancakes
- Pasta noodles
- Pre-molded hamburgers
- Pretzels
- Pudding (commercial or handmade, thickened with wheat flour)
- Rolls
- Sauce and Gravy Mixes
- Sausage (unless they are pure meat)
- Soups containing commercially prepared noodles, macaroni, or spaghetti
- Soup mixes and bases
- Soy Sauce, Tamari (unless wheat-free)
- Stewed fruits thickened with flour
- Sweets dusted with wheat flour to prevent them from sticking
