Codex Digestive Biscuits
They gave me some of these in Addenbrookes. On Friday when I came out I Must have ate about half a packet, as they were quite tasty. On Saturday, I had a blotchy face and a red neck, which is one of the ways gluten affects me.. Just likeit used to before I was diagnosed as a coeliac and went gluten-free. C was always plastering moisturiser on my face to no avail. Everything else, I ate on those two days was either something I knew I could trust or had cooked myself.
On Saturday I looked at the biscuit packet and found that they contained codex gluten-free wheat starch. It may be so, but I think my body had reacted to it, just like it reacts to maltodextrin. So thank you, biscuits for glutening me! I shall avoid codex products in future and especially those with gluten-free wheat starch. That must be something like alcohol-free Scotch Whisky! If firms like Trufree, Doves Farm, Village Bakery and countless others can get it right, it can’t be that difficult.
Today, I woke up fine and look and feel normal.
The Anonymous Widower 
So glad that you ‘look and feel normal’!
I can’t understand why the big companies continue to use codex wheat in their products – it just maintains the myth that codex is fine for all coeliacs – well, it isn’t, but who listens to us? Certainly not Coeliac UK. And it just means that many of us avoid Juvela etc so they miss out on sales!
Lesley
Comment by Lesley Maciver | June 13, 2010 |
It’s bad marketing. Just look at all those restaurants from Carluccios and Pizza Express to most with a Michelin Star who treat us properly. One chef said to me that there’s a one-in-25 chance that a table of four will have someone on a gluten-free diet. As he only had twenty tables, he was always prepared to change dishes to suit the punters. He was very full.
Comment by AnonW | June 13, 2010 |
I certainly avoid Juvela, after the incident with the fairy cake made with Juvela flour at a church event.
Eldest daughter has been up this weekend, and we had cake, it was Nigella’s Lemon and Polenta Cake, with no lemon or polenta – I used limes instead of lemons, and doves farm GF instead of polenta.
Husband and daughter both had second helpings, and daughter has taken some home with her.
If can produce food which people without CD enjoy and want more of, why cant professionals – bearing in mind, I am unable to cook unsupervised due to problems with hands, and Neil had to do some of the stuff for me.
Liz
Comment by Liz P | June 13, 2010 |
Limes are very underestimated in cooking. This recipe works well and they are the key.
Comment by AnonW | June 13, 2010 |
So pleased to know you are bck with us…and are on the mend.Another day…each day stronger. Brilliant news.
Wellfoods never has…and wont…use Codex starch. Dont like the stuff…..and you are a perfect example of why we dont.
Anyone have problems…email me.
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