Whole Foods Wheat Free or Gluten Free

While shopping at the local Whole Foods I came to the bakery and found the “Wheat Free” bakery section. I was pretty excited to see this section and started looking around at all the great looking baked goods that I was going to buy and scarf down when I got home. Before I ordered I asked the simple question “Are all of these items Gluten Free also?” This question prompted a simple answer of “no” they could not call these items Gluten Free because of the cross contamination issue. Be careful when food packages say “no wheat”. Although that is one of the words you need to look for when staying away from Gluten, a item can contain Gluten and not wheat. I have noticed a lot of packaged Wheat Free foods. It will state it is Wheat Free but on the ingredient list it will say “contains gluten” I am glad they specify this because it is better to be a little disappointed than really sick.

Tags: Cross Contamination, Whole Foods