I have just been reading our good friend Micki Rose’s blog – and she says that she has discovered that there is wheat in Tabasco…. Read more…
And while on the subject, those trying to avoid wheat should also read the labels very carefully on all bottled sauces, cheese spreads and dips, curry powders, horseradish creams, instant hot drinks, salad dresings, taramasalata, TVP (textured vegeable protein), prescription medicines and nutritional supplements – all of which may include wheat as an ingredient or manufacturing ‘aid’, usually called a cereal binder or filler, edible starch or modified starch.
Of course you also need to be able to recognise wheat when it appears under one of its many other names – such as bran, bulgar, chilton, dinkel, coucous, durum, einkorn, farro, Graham flour, kamut, spelt, semolina or triticum/triticale…
Good luck!