God bless gluten. ;-)
Can confirm that various GF alternatives really don't come close to the originals. Without the gluten things seem to be too "biscuity"...
0) Third child positive for "predisposition to coeliac" on a genetic test, but no symptoms and an endoscopy was negative too. Let's see.
i literally gave up from Brazilian industrialized/processed food a long time ago :D
the rise of the gluten-phobes is unchecked and I feel the rest of us are getting hosed.
Gluten isn't a phobia, it's an allergen that causes a variety of symptoms in people who are sensitive to it, from constipation and sneezing all the way up to bleeding and brain damage.
You know how celiac disease was first discovered?
Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.
> Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.
It was the link to wheat specifically that was discovered in the Netherlands, not the discovery of celiac disease itself.
The disease has a much longer history [0] [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_...
[1] https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/
It's getting better to be celiac but it's still very difficult. People who can eat gluten aren't being inconvenienced in any way by celiacs needing gluten free food at grocers