Surprising Foods Containing Gluten (2024)

FAQs

What foods surprisingly have gluten in them? ›

In general, avoid the following foods if you have celiac disease: Cereals, breads, or other grain products that include wheat, rye, barley, or oats. This includes white or whole-wheat flour (including cookies, crackers, cakes, and most other baked goods), semolina, couscous, bread crumbs, most pastas, and malt.

There is only one flavor of Doritos that Frito Lay lists as being gluten-free is DORITOS® Toasted Corn Tortilla Chips.

Beers like baileys, hennesey, wheat beers, lagers, and Heineken. Gin is not gluten free, as making gin gluten free is a very tricky process. Bottle wine coolers, mixed drinks, certain co*cktails and vodkas make a person experience gluten cross reaction. Hence, drinking them could pose a risk on such individual's health.

If a product is NOT labeled “gluten-free,” but contains one of these in the ingredients list, don't buy it: starch, modified food starch, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed plant protein, textured vegetable protein, dextrin, maltodextrin, glucose syrup, caramel, malt flavoring, malt extract, malt vinegar ( ...

It's important to know that peanuts, peanut butter, peanut flour and peanut oil are considered naturally gluten-free foods. Gluten is a form of protein found in wheat, barley and rye (2).

While most cheeses by themselves do not contain gluten, foods that contain cheese as one ingredient may not be gluten-free, so you should always read the label. Cheesecake is not gluten-free (unless specified on the label) because the crust is made with wheat flour.

What basic foods contain gluten? ›

“Gluten is a protein found in the wheat plant and some other grains,” explains Rajagopal. Gluten is naturally occurring, but it can be extracted, concentrated and added to food and other products to add protein, texture and flavor. It also works as a binding agent to hold processed foods together and give them shape.