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Originally Posted by DNSB
One person whom I know who avoids gluten like the plague also uses seitan in cooking as a replacement for meat. Oddly eating a slice of bread gives them all kinds of weird bloating, feeling that their bowels are impacted, whatever the symptom of the day is while eating a meal with seitan makes them feel well fed.
What is seitan? It's basically wheat gluten.
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Unfortunately, people who use 'gluten-free' as a diet trend to make things riskier for people who actually have Celiac. Restaurant servers not taking them seriously is the main example, but recently I've seen a lot of complaints about stuff-being labelled as gluten-free (marketed towards trendy dieters) but then having in tiny print on the package 'may have gluten.'
I have issues with digesting fructans. Instead of getting digested, it ferments and results in a lot of gas and then this draws water into the bowels and results in diarrhea too. Mostly artichokes and alliums (onions/garlics). Wheat flour has some too, but low enough that it's usually fine unless I eat too much - I kind of wonder if the 'gluten intolerance' a lot of people report is actually more of a fructan intolerance.
Artichokes are easy to avoid - I don't really like them anyways. But alliums often sneak in as an unnamed 'seasoning.'