"Emma Thackery" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
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>> "Emma Thackery" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > In article >,
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>> > Thanks! Last I read, PAM has wheat in it but I'll just use a little
>> > olive oil on them instead. I see that PAM is a ConAgra product. Seems
>> > like pretty soon there'll be just one big company that produces
>> > everything--- ConAllgra maybe.
>>
>> What does your intuition tell you about a product like PAM containing
>> wheat?
>> It should tell you enough to read the labels.
>
> With all due respect, you seem to have no conception of how many items
> that you'd never suspect that have gluten in them. My experience with
> this type of product tells me that a spray like PAM could very well have
> wheat in it since that is true historically. So when I saw that on a
> recent trusted list, I took it as fact. I don't think there's anything
> wrong with my intuition either. If you have no experience with a
> gluten-free diet, then "intuition" would definitely not be a good basis
> for shopping.
>
>> PAM Original, UPC code 64144-03103.
>> Ingredients: Canola oil, grain alcohol, soy lecithin, propellant.
>>
>> Now, if you go to their web site, you'd find this:
>>
>> Is PAM® gluten-free? Original PAM®, Butter Flavor PAM®, and Olive Oil
>> PAM®
>> do not contain any ingredients derived from wheat products. However, PAM®
>> For Baking is not gluten-free as it contains real flour, which is derived
>> from wheat.
>
> Well the last info I had on it (from my celiac list) said it had wheat
> in it so I guess that is outdated. It's very hard to keep up with the
> constant changes so I go the route of almost no highly processed foods.
> You feel safe buying a product and then suddenly one day you get a
> horrible reaction and are sick for days. Your risk of getting lymphoma
> goes up another couple of clicks and you feel like maybe another few
> weeks has been cut from your life span. Then you have to think about
> all the foods you ate in at least the last 24 hours--- all of them you
> thought to be gluten free. And then you discover it was the previously
> gluten-free sausage (or whatever) that suddenly has barley malt in it.
> Since barley is not wheat, it need not be singled out in the list of
> ingredients as an allergen (not that celiac is an allergy mind you). So
> you have to read all the ingredients for every product you buy each and
> every single time you go to the grocery store. Talk about turning a
> little trip to the grocery into a whole morning! And furthermore,
> despite the labeling laws, lots of companies somehow get around that and
> since meats fall under USDA (not FDA) they are not covered.
>
> Larger companies like ConAgra, ADM, Kraft/Altria change the food
> formulas & ingredients very often. Their lists of ingredients often
> number in the dozens. So it is often easiest to simply avoid them
> whenever possible. By way of example, look at Lean Cuisine which has
> over 100 different frozen entrees. Yet only 2, at my last look, were
> gluten free.
>
> And by the way, not to be sarcastic, but you cannot read a label when
> you don't have the product. You can only read labels of things you have
> in your pantry or see at the grocery.
>
> Emma


Your trusted list must've mentioned only the baking version of the product.
For the other versions, there would be no logical reason for them to contain
wheat products.