FOODS RECOMMENDED IN GLUTEN FREE DIET
Almonds Dripping Milk, Fresh
Arrowroot Eggs Milk, tinned or dried
Bacon Essences ` Nuts
Beer (not home brewed) *Fish, fresh Olives
Bicarbonate of Soda Fish, canned in brine, oil or water Olive Oil
Bovril Peels
Boiled Sweets (clear only) Fruit, fresh and fried Pickles (in vinegar)
Build Up (Carnation Fruit juices and squashes Poultry
Butter Fruit, tinned Potato flour
Calves Foot Jelly Game Rennet (for curds)
Capers Gelatine Rice
Carraway Seeds Ginger Rice Kris pies
Cheese (not processed) Gluten free flour Sago
Chicory Glucose Salt
Cloves Herbs Sugar
Cocoa Honey Tea
Coconut Jam Treacle
Coffee (fresh or instant) Lard *Vegetables, fresh, dried,
frozen
Complan (Farley) Lemonade (bottled aeraed waters) Vegetables, tinned
Cooking Oil Lentils Vinegar
Cornflakes Margarine Wheat starch
Cream, dairy or tinned Marmalade Wines or spirits
Cream of tartar Marmite Yeast, Baker’s
Dried fruits, all kinds *Meat, fresh
*Frozen foods, provided they are not already prepared in any way, may be used instead of fresh.
All food flavourings and colourings are Gluten free.
When cooking, use Gluten Free Flour, Wheat Starch of a suitable cornflour in place of ordinary flour.
Gluten free baking recipes and the Coeliac Society List of Gluten Free manufactured products are available from the Hospital dietitian.
FOODS NOT RECOMMENDED IN A GLUTEN FREE DIET
Some of the following foods are available in the gluten free form and these appear in the list of Gluten Free Manufactured Foods produced by the Coeliac Society.
Baking powders Farleys rusks Oatmeal
Baby cereals Fish in sauce or breadcrumbs Oatcakes
Barley water or batter Ovaltine
Beans, baked Fishcakes Oxo
Beefburgers Fishfingers Pasta
Bemax Fish pastes Pastry
Benger’s food Fruit pie fillings Peanut butter
Biscuits Gravy mixes and browning Pepper
Blancmange powders Groats Pickles in sauce
Bran-wheat Horlicks Porridge oats
Bread Horseradish sauce Potato crisps
Breadcrumbs Ice cream Puddings, tinned
Breakfast cereals Ice cream cones and wafers Salad creams
Cake and pudding mixes Instant desserts Potato Salad
Cakes Junket preparation in tablets Sandwich spread and pastes
Cake Decorations Lasagne Sardines in sauce
Carmels Lemonade powder Sausages
Celery salt Lemon cheese Semolina
Cheese spreads Lemon/orange curd Soups, tinned or packeted
Chocolate Luncheon meats Spaghetti
Chocolate, drinking Macaroni Spaghetti
Chutney Macaroni products Spices
Coffee essences Macvita Spreads, sweet and savoury
Cornflour Malt Stuffing
Cream, artificial Malt milk drinks Suet (shredded)
Crispbreads Marshmallow crème Trifle
Curry powder Marzipan Vegetable salad, potato
Salad
Custard powder Mayonnaise Vermicelli
Dessert powders Meat pastes Yorkshire pudding
Energen rolls Meat, tinned
Energen bread Meringues
Mincemeat
Mustard
Noodles
NB Bread, biscuits, etc. Described as starch reduced or suitable for slimming DO contain Gluten and are forbidden
It is always safest to check the ingredients in all manufactured foods in tins, packets, bottles, etc. To make sure they are gluten free. If in doubt, please ask your hospital dietitian.
