This is a different topic today. One of the other parts of my life is I was diagnosed with Celiac disease back in August of 2015. I put together this letter for restaurants as I find that the Chef's and staff don't really know what gluten is and I keep having reactions after eating out. If you have Celiac please feel free to copy and paste and use yourself.
Dear
Chef, I have Celiac disease which is an autoimmune disease that is an
allergy to Gluten.
The following are foods that contain Gluten that I am allergic to. Gluten can be found in sauces, spices, salad dressings, soy sauce, ingredient list of pre-packaged foods:
- wheat starch
- wheat bran
- wheat germ
- wheatberries
- KAMUT® khorasan wheat
- couscous
- cracked wheat
- durum
- einkorn
- emmer
- farina
- faro
- fu (common in Asian foods)
- gliadin
- graham flour
- kamut
- matzo
- semolina
- spelt
- barley
- bulgur
- oats (Avenin present in oats is toxic for celiac people )
- rye
- seitan
- triticale and Mir (a cross between wheat and rye)
- malt
- Brewers yeast
Please check your
ingredient list and inform me what on the menu (which is not
fish) that I can eat that does not have any of the above ingredients
within the menu choice.
Thank you. Its not easy
to eat out, and the help you provide me today is greatly appreciated
Lately the very young staff at restaurants don't know what gluten is. I went to one chain restaurant at two different locations. One location said the home fries on the grill were gluten free. Then within a week went to the other location with more mature staff and they said their home fries for the chain are prepackaged frozen food and yes the home fries have gluten. The young staff at the first location didn't know what gluten was.
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