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What makes rice gluten-free?
tl;dr: The terminology used to compare plant proteins is used on a level of abstraction too high to give meaningful medical results. Prolamins are too broad of a chemical category to assay their ...
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Are there health benefits associated with avoidance of gluten?
There are two main reasons why foods are made (or advertised) as gluten free. In short it is partially to meet the needs of a small but growing group of people who are allergic to gluten and also to ...
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Source for gluten content in foods
On an elementary level, only very few grains of grasses do contain the protein complexes of the gluten group: Gliadin in Wheat, Hordein in Barley, Secalin in Rye, Avenin in Oats. On a 'processed' ...
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