Celiac disease and gluten free diet
What is gluten?
Gluten is sticky protein that could be found in cereals like wheat, rye, barley, oats. This protein causes inflammation of mucosa of the small intestine to people who are gluten intolerant. Primarily, gluten free diet used to treat celiac disease. Initially, gluten free diet is treatment for celiac disease, but it could be used for people who don’t have celiac disease but have symptoms and some disease-related complications .It is not easy to switch to that kind of diet and it takes some time to get used to. Gluten free diet is not as other diets. You have to completely avoid food that contains gluten.
Here is short list of foods that contain gluten:
White flour, durum, wheat graham flour, semolina, wheat germ, cookies, muffins, cereal, beer, oats, dressings, pasta, bread, cakes, sauces.
You should know that gluten is not only found in these groceries, but in many others. So called “hidden gluten” could be found in variety of ingredients as modified gelatin, emulsifier, stabilizer or binder contained in variety of goods such as spices, baking powder, vanilla sugar, industrial creams, ice creams, ketchup, salad dressing, industrial sweets, meat products. For these reason, industrial canned vegetables also contain stabilizers and should be avoided. Also, when we talk about industrially dried or candied fruit, you should know that is used wheat flour or industrial powdered sugar that contains 5% of gluten. Industrial yogurt, sour milk and fruit yogurt should not be consumed because they have stabilizers and cheeses that are prepared with white vinegar.
Do not forget that many of the alcoholic beverage obtained by the distillation of “prohibited” grain-whiskey, vodka, gin and beer. Even In some fruit juices uses a smaller quantity of flour in order to densification, so it is the best to cook fresh fruit juices. Diabetics should be careful because many sweeteners-saccharin, cyclamate, sucralose…No risk behavior
Since gluten causes problems even in small quantities, it is necessary to pay high attention when shopping and preparing food.
Therefore, it is important to:
Make special shell in your pantry only for gluten free food and mark all of them.
Before every preparation clean working area from flour traces. Even one molecule is enough to cause disturbance.
Prepared meals keep in sealed containers in refrigerate to avoid contamination.
Important:
- Eject white flour, white sugar, white rice and refined salt from nutrition.
2. Consume as many allowable grains, fruits and vegetables.
3. Eat only bread and pastries prepared by the gluten free flour
4. At your menu should be fish, at least twice a week.
5. When preparing meals, use unrefined and cold pressed oils
6. Use apple cider vinegar instead white
7. If you want to spice up your dish, use herbs.
Since November 2005, It is mandatory guidance gluten in the product labels. Nowadays, in supermarket shells, we can see product especially made for people with celiac disease, with big sign-GLUTEN FREE.
More about gluten free food find on https://www.freshnlean.com/order-fnl/
It is important to check which products are without gluten on market, because guten is hiding in baking powder, vanilla sugar, dry and fresh yeast, pudding (except the one with grits), density, food additives, cheese, yogurt and meat products.
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