How do I know if food is gluten-free?
The best way to know if a food is gluten-free is to eat natural foods that are not packaged or processed. In this video, functional medicine expert Mark Hyman, MD, gives some recommendations and shares tips for how to spot gluten on food labels.
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I mean, even French fries, for example, have gluten. They dip it in gluten, and they fry it, so the French fries stick together. So be really conscious of foods that
are prepared outside your kitchen, in a factory, because they are likely to have gluten. [MUSIC PLAYING]
The best way to know if a food that you're going to eat is gluten free is to eat foods without labels.
So if it's an apple or an almond or an avocado, you know it doesn't have gluten. If it's packaged or processed in any way,
there's a high likelihood that it has gluten hidden in it, even if it's not the main ingredient, because they use it to stick it together.
I mean, even French fries, for example, have gluten. They dip it in gluten, and they fry it, so the French fries stick together. So be really conscious of foods that
are prepared outside your kitchen, in a factory, because they are likely to have gluten. If you're going to be looking for gluten on the label,
the best thing is to look for any word that has wheat in it. But there are hidden names, like natural flavorings and other secret things that you might not
know, like barley malt. That might not be something that you might trigger as gluten, but barley malt is a sweetener. It's often found in a lot of natural products
that sound healthy but actually may be full of gluten. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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