If you're sensitive to gluten, you may know to avoid all forms of wheat in food. Cooking the gluten-free way also means avoiding other grains that contain gluten — grains that you may not be too familiar with. Consider this list of the grains you need to avoid:
Wheat and almost anything with the word wheat in its name. You also need to avoid hydrolyzed wheat protein, wheat starch, wheat germ, and so on, but you may not realize that you need to beware of aliases like flour, bulgur, semolina, spelt, frumento, durum (also spelled duram), kamut, graham, einkorn, farina, couscous, seitan, matzoh, matzah, matzo, and cake flour.
By the way, wheat grass, like all grasses, is gluten-free.
Wheat starch is wheat that's had the gluten washed out. In some countries, a special type of wheat starch called Codex Alimentarius wheat starch is allowed on the gluten-free diet — but standards vary from country to country. Codex Alimentarius wheat starch isn't allowed in North America because some people question whether the washing process completely removes all residual gluten.
Barley and its derivatives. Most malt is derived from barley, so unless it states otherwise, you need avoid malt and malt flavoring as well as barley in its pure form.
Rye isn't really hidden in any ingredients, so the pure form of rye — usually found in rye bread — is what you need to avoid.
Triticale, which most people have never heard of. It's a hybrid cross between wheat and rye, and was developed to combine the productivity of wheat with the ruggedness of rye.
Derivatives of gluten-containing grains. If you thought you were done with derivatives when you finished your calculus class, you were wrong. You need to avoid derivatives of gluten-containing grains, and the most common one to watch out for is malt, which usually comes from barley. Malt, malt flavoring, and malt vinegar are definite no-nos. If malt is derived from another source, such as corn, it will usually say so on the label; for instance, "malt (from corn)." That's not too common, though, so if the source isn't specified, don't eat it.
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