Gluten safety quiz

Real situations, for kids and for adults.

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By Jeffrey Lee, a parent and not a doctor.

Is this safe?

everyday food, and the ones that catch people out

Same three answers the planner uses, and they are on the buttons below. What trips people up is rarely an obscure food. It's usually an everyday one with wheat hiding inside.

These answers are how we decide in our own house, not medical advice, and a quiz cannot see the actual product in your hand. Brands reformulate, the same brand differs from country to country, and a couple of these, communion wafers and prescription medicine in particular, are worth settling with your priest, your pharmacist or your doctor rather than with us. Where the label and this page disagree, the label wins.

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