What is Gluten Free ? (Was Response from Nestlé Beverage)

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> You have to decide at what level you're going to worry. If major

> corporations, with very liability-conscious lawyers, are willing to

> call their product " gluten-free " (even though that does not yet have

> legal meaning in the US) I am usually willing to risk eating it.

If you look at the response from Nestlé, they say:

" Nestlé

Gluten Free Products

*This information includes products, which, to the best of our

knowledge, do not contain wheat, rye, or barley/malt ingredients "

You will notice it does NOT list oats as one of the ingredients that

would disqualify a product in their eyes from being " gluten-free " .

Until " gluten-free " has some legal meaning in the US I'm comfortable

with, I'll use the " contains: wheat " label as a quick pass test to see if

I should bother reading the ingredient list. I'll use the " gluten-free "

label as the big flashing light that says " Check me out - I *might* be

OK for you " and then read the ingredient list anyway.

For someone who ate a lot of junk food during his life, I've become

a lot more picky about what I eat now...... :-)

Best,

-patrick