Gluten and Swollen Gums

Sausages in a frying pan

Is there a link between gluten and swollen gums? Last Saturday I was looking in the fridge for breakfast inspiration and saw an opened pack of sausages.  The cardboard outer had come off which meant that they were unlabeled.  I hadn’t bought them but as a general rule any sausages…

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Cross Contamination?

Cross contamination is a real and present danger when the packaging of an item states “may contain” or “produced in a factory which also handles”, even though there are no gluten containing ingredients on the label. The risk is slightly higher with “may contain” and it caught me out twice…

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Gluten in Cleaning Products and Cosmetics

Should we be worried about gluten in products we use everyday as well as the gluten in food? After all gluten is widely used in lipsticks and lip balms as a binder to hold the other ingredients together. It is also used in other products – holding flavouring ingredients together…

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