Gluten-Free Flour

#12: Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack...
Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
by Bob's Red Mill
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#28: The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Bo...
The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
by The Gluten-Free Pantry
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#35: Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
by Bob's Red Mill

Buy new: $47.29 $32.74

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#44: Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 44-Ounce Units (Pack of 4)
Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 44-Ounce Units (Pack of 4)Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 44-Ounce Units (Pack of 4)
by Bob's Red Mill
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Buy new: $35.02 $28.14

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#46: OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)
OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)
by OrgraN
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Buy new: $49.78 $34.46

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Rice Chex To Go Gluten Free!

Posted on April 16, 2008 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, celiac living, gluten free diet

Gluten Free Rice Chex Coming SoonMost Americans will remember Rice Chex breakfast cereal from the days of their youth, but like so very many other well known breakfast cereals it has been off limits to the gluten-free and celiac communities. We have good news [PDF].

General Mills has announced that they will be reformulating Rice Chex as a gluten-free cereal! I might go to my local supermarket and see if it is there yet. This is great news. As a wee lad I could eat Rice Chex until the box was empty, anytime. Today I would be using soy milk instead of moo cow, but I bet I would still enjoy this cereal.

I’ve also read in the press recently an article suggesting that Gluten Free is the new health craze, following in the footsteps of low carb and no carb fads. If so perhaps it is the health fad aspect that is getting big megafoodcorps to pay attention. If 1% of the population has celiac disease, and only 3% of those with celiac disease know about it, that leaves .03% of the population who are on a GF diet because of having a diagnosed case of celiac disease. This is a very, very small minority. So if diet fadsters with no medical requirement to avoid gluten want to help make it easier to find gluten free food, we say good! Have at it. Did you see this rice flour over here ? :)

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Food For Life Recalls Spelt Bread

Posted on March 19, 2008 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, celiac disease, celiac living, celiac science, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

California baker Food For Life has recalled their spelt bread product because it contains spelt. No, really.

Food For Life Baking Company of Corona, California is voluntarily recalling 2,241 cases of Spelt Bread (UPC# 07347200168) because they contain spelt grain which is known to be a hybrid of wheat.

You see under the newly revised food allergen labeling laws, any product that contains one of the leading food allergens must be labelled as containing that allergen. Food For Life Spelt bread contains Spelt, Spelt is a wheat hybrid, the package did not state that the product contains wheat. Ooops.

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Best Gluten Free Bread Yet, Vegan and Five Stars!

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes

Today I had my first complete success in baking GF bread, the first loaf that was completely vegan, gluten free, and did rise without collapsing during the bake cycle. There were two new factors in this loaf that I had not used before. First I used silken tofu as an egg replacer, and second I used Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose GF Baking Flour, which I will definitely be using in the future. There was no brown rice or white rice flour in this bread at all.
This mix contains Garbanzo Flour, Potato Starch, Tapioca Flour, White Sorghum Flour, and Fava Bean Flour.

I used a recipe based on “Chickpea Yeast Bread” on page 116 of The Best ever Wheat and Gluten-Free Baking Book, I substituted the Bob’s Red Mill mix for the 3 cups of various flours, and I used tofu instead of eggs.

Wet Ingredients:
5 ounces silken tofu
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 and 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon Vermont maple syrup

Dry Ingredients:
3 cups Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose GF Baking Flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
3 teaspoons xanthan gum
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons sea salt
1/2 cup Better Than Milk Vegan Beverage Mix, Soy
1 package yeast

Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, try to break up the brown sugar clumps.
Put the silken tofu, olive oil and 1/2 cup of the water in a blender and mix thoroughly.
Put the dry ingredients in your Zojirushi or other bread machine
Pour in the tofu/oil/water blend
Pour in the remaining cup of water
Push the quick cycle (or gluten free cycle) button
Then wait about 2 hours for your delightful bread-like loaf of gluten free bread. Loveses it!

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Another Site About Celiac Disease

Posted on November 14, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes

There is a new website for people with celiac disease, the intended use is to provide information and news about celiac disease. Users can register free, and each user is encouraged to maintain their own blog as well as posting messages to a fairly basic forum. Users can also create polls which anyone can vote on, registered or not.


Perhaps the best feature of this new website is the Celiac-related news. It is categorized, mixed, blended and served in your choice of several ways -as just headlines in the left and right sidebars, or in more detail if you use the navigation links.

There is also a big long section of GF recipes, and links to a few GF food items.

The site designer (c’est moi) hopes to build a community of people with celiac disease, and people on a GF diet for other reasons, like autism, are certainly welcome too. There is still time for you to be among the very first people to create an account at All About Celiac. Really, visit http://allaboutceliac.org/ today! It’s all free, of course.

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New Gluten Free Shopping Site

Posted on November 3, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

There now is a new option for online food shopping available to people affected by celiac disease, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other conditions that may benefit from a gluten free diet. Gluten Free Live is now online, with more shopping options for you.

Gluten Free Live (GlutenFreeLive.com) offers gluten-free bread, bread mixes, buns, cereal, cookies, crackers and more. There is a section of this online store for gluten free and dairy free foods, as well as an area with gluten free milk substitutes in both dry and liquid form. Vegetarians who are eating gluten free will find an area just for them, and the gluten free pasta aisle is sure to be a favorite for everyone on a GF diet.Gluten Free Live uses advanced methods to find and filter online food sources so that you don’t have to wander through a web shop full of food you can not eat.

The founder of Gluten Free Live (GlutenFreeLive.com)is himself a vegetarian with celiac disease, so the site is backed up by years of personal experience eating a GF diet and designing web applications. At Gluten Free Live we want to help you be gluten-free.The book department at Gluten Free Live offers pre-configured lists of books about autism and celiac disease, as well as gluten free cookbooks. There are virtual store aisles with GF snacks, energy bars, fruit bars and our top-selling gluten free pretzels. There is also a section with gluten free meals that are ready to eat or require a minimum of preparation.

Busy cooks can find bread mixes, all kinds of gluten free flour, gluten free pizza shells, and gluten free pancake mix.Because many people on a gluten free diet rely on rice as a staple, the store (GlutenFreeLive.com) also features rice cookers, and rounding out the kitchen wares is a selection of bread machines. Gluten Free Live also offers pages with free gluten-free recipes and the latest news about celiac disease and autism. By partnering with Amazon the site is able to offer free super-saver shipping on many orders that total $25 or more. Gluten Free Live is now open for business. Shop now, shop often.

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Crispy Brown Rice Gluten Free Cereal

Posted on September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet

One of the leading sellers among gluten free breakfast cereals is Erewhon brand Crispy Brown Rice Cereal. Recently the manufacturer has changed their packaging. Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Gluten Free Cereal On Amazon it seems to be the number one selling GF cereal.

You should be aware that Erewhon makes a number of different breakfast cereals, please be certain that the product you buy has the words Gluten Free displayed prominently on the package (if you have celiac disease). Most breakfast cereals contain barley malt flavoring, and since barley is one of the grains that people with celiac disease must avoid, that eliminates the vast majority of breakfast cereals from the gluten-free diet. In some cases malt flavoring is derived from non-barley sources like corn, which should be safe for people with celiac disease.

I like this cereal, it reminds me of another similar looking product that is known for sounds it creates in milk. I use soy milk with my breakfast cereal because I’m vegan as well as having celiac disease. You can buy this cereal at our celiac friendly food shopping site, The GF Store.

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Gluten Free and Vegan Burgers That Are Delicious Too!

Posted on September 23, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

At our house, we go through gluten-free and vegan burgers as if they were candy, yum! Wildwood Tofu-Veggie Burger, original flavor And the best ones we have found are thankfully available in great quantity at our local Trader Joe’s. These burgers have a texture and mouth feel that is very much like meat, they are more chewy than most gluten-free vegan burgers. I’ve seen them at Whole Foods stores too. After two of these with a little ketchup and I get what I call Happy Tummy, always a desirable state for people with celiac disease. Look for them at your local health food store, I think you’ll like them too.

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US National Celiac Disease Awareness Day: September 13, 2007

Posted on September 13, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, celiac disease, celiac living

The US Senate has declared September 13th, 2007 as Celiac Disease Awareness Day (see attached PDF file). At our sister site The Sensible Celiac we hope to raise awareness, not just in the US but worldwide, about this dramatically under-diagnosed condition.

Although this may change in a few more years, at the present time there are no over-priced medications for celiac disease, and there are no multi-billion dollar drug companies offering free samples and golf tours to doctors for these drugs that don’t exist - yet. So, doctors in America are not as conscious of the condition as they might be if a drug company sales rep was dropping in every Wednesday with brochures for the waiting room and free sample packs.

But it’s out there. An estimated 1 person in 133 in the USA has celiac disease, but very few are aware of their illness. Symptoms vary widely, adding to the difficulty of diagnosing this disorder.

Have a gluten free day today, and tell a friend, acquaintance or neighbor about celiac disease. Information is the key to progress.

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The Sensible Celiac recently celebrated its 3 year anniversary

Posted on June 15, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

the sensible celiac

2007-06-14 19:22:54 - For 3 years now The Sensible Celiac has been serving the celiac disease community and all those following a gluten free diet. With a discussion forum, celiac-related news, videos, recipes, and several shopping pages, The Sensible Celiac is a much used resource. Visit sensibleceliac.com to learn more about celiac disease.

The Sensible Celiac was founded by a webmaster with celiac disease whose daughter, a Registered Nurse, also suffers from the disorder. The original motivation for starting the site was to debunk false information about the gluten free diet, and to give people affected by celiac disease a place to share their experiences.

Celiac disease is a genetically mediated auto-immune disorder characterized by an intolerance for specific protein peptides found in certain widely used grains. When a person with celiac disease ingests any of these grains, even in very small amounts, their immune system reacts to these protein fragments as though they were an invading organism, and attacks the villi lining the small intestine in a misguided defense strategy.

In order to prevent triggering this self destructive immune response, persons with celiac disease must avoid certain grains for the rest of their lives. The offending grains are wheat, rye and barley.

At first this might seem like a simple thing to do, but in fact there are many foods that contain ingredients derived from wheat, barley or rye.

Celiac disease was once considered to be a rare disorder, but random blood tests in the general population for the antigens produced by a person with this autoimmune disorder suggest as many as one person in 133 suffers from celiac disease. There may be as many as 2 million undiagnosed cases of celiac disease in the US alone.

Today several hundred people are members of the discussion forum at the Sensible Celiac Sensible Celiac Discussion Forum and the site is still growing. Visit sensibleceliac.com today to learn more about celiac disease.

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Testing Proceeds for Possible Celiac Disease Drug

Posted on May 7, 2007 | Filed Under celiac disease, celiac living, celiac science, gluten free diet

BALTIMORE, May 7 /PRNewswire/ — Alba Therapeutics Corporation today announced preliminary results from its Phase IIa clinical trial for AT-1001 in subjects with Celiac Disease (CD), an autoimmune disease affecting over 3 million people in the United States. Alba’s study, the first Phase IIa trial in CD and the first to assess dosing requirements for AT-1001 in CD, was designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of multiple doses of AT-1001 in CD subjects during a 2-week gluten challenge.

The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial enrolled 86 patients who were confirmed biopsy positive for CD and in compliance with a gluten-free diet for at least six months prior to enrollment. Patients were randomized into seven drug-treated and placebo groups and challenged three times a day with gluten during a 14-day period. Four doses of the enteric coated oral formulation of AT-1001, all less than 10 mg, were given prior to each gluten challenge. Study endpoints included intestinal permeability (IP) — a marker of disease state in CD — as well
as patient symptoms and outcomes, measured by two validated tests of gastrointestinal disease outcome: the Gastrointestinal Symptoms Rating Scale (GSRS) and the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWBI).

Preliminary analysis revealed the following:

  • At day 14, IP, as measured by the change in urinary lactulose-to-mannitol (LA/MA) ratio, exhibited a dose dependent response. On day 21, one week after the final drug dosing and gluten challenge, the dose dependent trend continued to statistically significant levels.
  • The GSRS and PGWBI provided additional efficacy signals that further support the IP observations. Patients on the AT-1001 drug arms performed better than those on the gluten/placebo arm. Analyses demonstrated that several symptoms and outcomes improved at statistically significant levels.
  • Safety and tolerability of multiple oral doses of AT-1001 in the patient population was demonstrated. There were no Severe Adverse Events and all Adverse Events were reported as mild or moderate.

“We are very encouraged by the preliminary data and look forward to applying the extensive knowledge gained in this Phase IIa exploratory clinical trial to a larger, highly powered Phase IIb gluten challenge study later this year” said Blake Paterson, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Alba
Therapeutics. Using the highly complex and ambitious seven arm study design for the Phase IIa trial, we repeated the proof of concept from the Phase Ib study, showed a statistically significant effect across a variety of measures and are well prepared to move the celiac program forward.”

Based on these results, Alba will advance AT-1001 into a Phase IIb clinical study in CD subjects during the third quarter of 2007. The Phase IIb study, to be performed in multiple centers in the United States and Canada, will assess the efficacy of AT-1001 utilizing multiple endpoints,
including a composite index of disease activity. The first patient is expected to be enrolled into this study in the third quarter of 2007, and the study should conclude in early 2008.

About Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease is a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease that occurs in genetically susceptible individuals and is characterized by small intestinal inflammation, injury and intolerance to gluten. According to the National Institutes of Health, CD affects approximately 3 million Americans. The only current treatment for CD is complete elimination of gluten from the diet, which results in remission for some patients.

About Alba
Alba Therapeutics Corporation is a privately held biopharmaceutical company based in Baltimore, Maryland dedicated to the development and commercialization of disease modifying therapeutics to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases based upon the regulation of tight junctions. Alba’s lead compound, AT-1001, is targeted towards the treatment of Celiac Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Type 1 Diabetes

Contact: Stuart Sedlack, SVP, Corporate Development
Phone: +1-410-319-0780
E-mail: info@albatherapeutics.com
Web site: http://www.albatherapeutics.com

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