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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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Genius are no stranger to this blog, and my criticism of their pursuit of a marketing strategy which seems to involve aligning themselves – and the gluten-free diet (GFD) – with fitness, sport and sporting excellence was covered in a…
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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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I was at a talk last year where the speaker, a small producer of gluten-free products, explained that the only testing they did on their products was via bought allergen-detection kits. In other words, they never sent their products for…
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Allergen-related product recalls are a seemingly weekly occurrence, sadly, but the latest one of Genius Gluten Free Denby Steak Pies seems more significant, somehow – possibly because it’s a major brand, who make very good products, and because the error…
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There’s been a great deal of media coverage of free from and food sensitivities lately, and it’s worth remembering how far we have come on this. I recall pitching allergy, intolerance and coeliac-related articles to magazines and papers ten, even…
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As Carly at Gluten Free B has already pointed out earlier this year, probably the best way for gluten-free manufacturers to boost profits is to target non-gluten-free eaters. They can’t do this on the basis of cost because free-from is…
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