If you ask anyone who has a food allergy or sensitivity what the hardest part is and they will say that making sure what they eat doesn’t have the ingredient they are sensitive to in it. Thankfully, there are now labeling laws for the top 8 allergens (milk, eggs, shellfish, fish, soy, wheat, peanuts and tree nuts). Unfortunately for those who have Celiac or are sensitive to gluten, companies are not required to call out gluten on the label. Gluten can be hidden in natural flavors, spices, etc. There is a lot to be said for companies that won’t hide gluten in spices or natural flavors. I will gladly spend extra money to make sure that the product that I am eating is free of gluten and is easily verified over one that I have to call to verify or wonder about. Here is a list of companies that will clearly mark gluten on the labels:<\/p>\n
These are companies that say they will clearly list gluten in the
\ningredients. I have not included companies that are specifically GF or
\nsmaller specialty companies. I know this list is not complete. Some of
\nthese are actually subsidiaries of some of the others, but I have not tried
\nto sort that out.<\/p>\n
When a company says it will clearly list gluten, you might still see things
\nlike “modified food starch” or “natural flavor.” In this case, the suspect
\ningredient does not have gluten if gluten is not plainly listed. I cannot
\ntell you about any policies regarding cross contamination.<\/p>\n
Act II For the first 6 months or so after I was gluten-free, I carried this list around with me every time I went to the store. I also had a huge notebook full of lists of individual foods that I could safely purchase and eat. I no longer need the notebook or lists. For the most part I can either remember the brands or stick with what I know. We also tend to buy very few processed foods so there really isn’t the issue of what is in it if it is a natural, whole food.<\/p>\n
\nAlexia
\nAunt Nelly’s
\nBalance Oasis (Balance bars)
\nBall Park
\nBaskin Robbins
\nBen & Jerry
\nBetty Crocker
\nBlue Bunny
\nBreyers
\nCampbells
\nCascadian Farms
\nCelestial Seasonings
\nCon Agra
\nCountry Crock
\nCrunch & Munch
\nEdy’s
\nEgg Beater’s
\nFiddle Faddle
\nFleichman’s
\nGeneral Mills
\nGood Humor
\nGreen Giant
\nGulden’s
\nHaagen Daz
\nHealthy Choice
\nHebrew National
\nHellman’s
\nHershey~ Update\u00a0(Just issued a new statement this year (2009); call per each item to verify GF status)
\n<\/strong>Hillshire Farms
\nHormel
\nHunt’s
\nJiffy
\nJiffy Pop
\nJimmy Dean
\nKnorr
\nKozy Shack
\nKraft
\nLa Choy
\nLibby’s
\nLipton
\nManwich
\nMarie Callender’s
\nMartha White
\nMcCormick
\nNabisco
\nNestle
\nOld El Paso
\nOrtega
\nOrville Redenbacher
\nPam
\nParkay
\nPeter Pan
\nPillsbury
\nPoppycock
\nPopsicle
\nPost
\nProgresso
\nRanch Style
\nReddi Whip
\nRo*tel
\nRosarita
\nRussell Stover
\nSara Lee
\nSeneca Foods
\nSlim Jim
\nStokely’s
\nSunny Delight
\nSwiss Miss
\nT Marzetti
\nTyson
\nUnilever
\nVan Camp’s
\nWesson
\nWishbone
\nYoplait
\nZatarain’s<\/p>\n