If you have Celiac Disease, or a gluten sensitivity, dining out at restaurants these days may seem like a dream come true. With more restaurants offering gluten free options, it is making it easier to dine out....or is it?A study, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, found that gluten resides in 32% of restaurant foods marked gluten free. It was also found that 52.3% of GF pizzas contain gluten, and nearly 51% of GF pastas contain gluten. The researchers tested the food with the Nima device, which uses a small sample of food to detect gluten.
While this may seem shocking and somewhat criminal, the USDA law that grants manufacturers the ability to label packaged food GF if it tests under 20ppm, does not apply to restaurant foods.
My Two Cents
I highly urge you all to speak to your waiters about their GF options. With Celiac Disease, you can't take any risks. I also recommend that you stick to 100% GF restaurants. I will be posting about random GF restaurants across the country.
source:
https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/almost-a-third-of-foods-labeled-gluten-free-contain-gluten-study-finds/
