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Uncovering the Hidden Names of Gluten in Ingredients

Updated: Oct 18



Hidden Ingredient Names for Gluten:

  • Amp-isostearoyl hydrolyzed wheat protein

  • Barley, Barley grass (may contain seeds)

  • Barley hordeum vulgare

  • Barley malt

  • Beer (Ale, Stout)

  • Bleached flour

  • Bran

  • Bread flour

  • Brewer's yeast

  • Brown flour

  • Bulgur

  • Cake flour (meal)

  • Cereal

  • Binding

  • Couscous

  • Dextrimaltose

  • Disodium wheatgermamido peg-2 sulfosuccinate

  • Durum flour

  • Edible starch

  • Einkorn

  • Emmer

  • Farina

  • Filler

  • Flour (usually means wheat flour)

  • Fu (dried wheat gluten)

  • Gliadin

  • Gluten

  • Graham flour

  • Granary flour

  • Groats (barley, wheat, oat)

  • Hard wheat

  • Hydrolyzed wheat gluten

  • Hydrolyzed wheat protein

  • Hydrolyzed wheat protein pg-propyl silanetriol

  • Hydrolyzed wheat starch

  • Kamut

  • Macha wheat

  • Malt (made from barley)

  • Malt Extract, flavoring, syrup, or vinegar

  • Malted milk

  • Matzo meal, semolina

  • Mir

  • Oat bran, oatmeal, oats, rolled oats, groats, flour

  • Oriental wheat

  • Pasta

  • Pearl barley

  • Persian wheat

  • Polish wheat

  • Poulard wheat

  • Rice Malt (if barley or Koji are used)

  • Rye

  • Seitan

  • Semolina Spelt, small

  • Sprouted wheat or barley

  • Stearyldimoniumhydroxypropyl hydrolyzed wheat protein

  • Strong flour

  • Suet (in packets)

  • Textured Vegetable Protein - TVP

  • Triticale (a wheat-rye blend)

  • Triticale X triticosecale

  • Triticum vulgare flour lipids, germ extract, germ oil

  • Udon (wheat noodles)

  • Unbleached flour

  • Vavilovi wheat

  • Vegetable starch

  • Wheat (Abyssinian hard, club, common, durum, timopheevi, bulgur)

  • Wheat bran extract, amino acids

  • Wheat berries

  • Wheat durum triticum

  • Wheat germ, germ extract, germ oil, or lipids

  • Wheat grass (may contain seeds)

  • Wheat nuts, protein or starch

  • Whole wheat, flour

  • Wild einkorn, emmer


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