The Myth of Hidden Gluten
It appears to have escaped the attention of some, but gluten is not permitted to ‘hide’ in food. Gluten has to be declared in ingredients lists — in the form of wheat, barley, rye or oats. The name of the…
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media / journalism
Why is gluten free food so expensive?
“Supermarket gluten-free food rip-off” said the Sun. “The gluten-free food price shock” said the Mail. The stories were based on research by Channel 4’s Supershoppers, which was screened yesterday at 8.30pm. The claim? That gluten-free shoppers are being diddled by…
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2015: The 10 Best and Worst in Allergy & FreeFrom
The Best! 10. #fruitisnotapudding Demonstrating that coeliacs have a top sense of humour and exemplifying how good can come from not-good, Carly at GlutenFreeB.com runs this light-hearted annual award for the worst gluten-free dessert offering, and this year’s winner is memorably,…
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Three Months: Quick in Daily Mail World
You may remember the brouhaha in August when the Daily Mail claimed the NHS spent £116 million on prescription ‘gluten-free junk food’. It screamed ‘Doughnuts and Pizzas on the NHS‘ – if you’re a coeliac and can bear to be…
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The allergy fakers aren’t all allergy fakers
A quick post about the article ‘Why Food Allergy Fakers Need to Stop‘ – published a couple of weeks ago, which proved a massive hit on social media among many coeliacs and food allergics – and its follow-up of sorts,…
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Gluten free bread: is it really so bad?
Investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman’s Bad Food Britain is a brilliant book: a devastating critique of much about what is wrong with our country’s diet and attitudes towards food which, almost ten years after publication, is still relevant and valid….
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Daily Mail, NHS and Gluten-Free Prescriptions: the same old story
“Doughnuts and Pizzas on the NHS” – the latest attack on the NHS from the Mail. The story originally claimed £116m of gluten-free junk food was being made available on prescription, as the cover page below shows, but this has…
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Was there sense about allergy from Sense About Science?
I’m a fan of science. I’ve little patience with those who consider science an optional means of understanding the world (in my experience, exclusively people who’ve never studied it), and I believe evidence-based medicine – which uses rigorous scientific method…
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2014: a year in coeliac, intolerance and allergy
We’ll gloss over my failed prediction from last year’s round-up that low-FODMAP ready meals would be in our supermarkets by the end of 2014 (by end of 2015, definitely … ) and instead kick-off where I left off – with…
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Far Eastern Odyssey – or Idiocy?
You have a few weeks from the date at the top of this blog to catch up with Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey, Episode 2, originally broadcast in 2009, and repeated this weekend, in which the well-known chef discusses food…
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