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Many thanks for your excellent responses.  Here’s the Summary:

Other things that cause gluten-like reaction for some of us:

 

soy sauce in a restaurant

anything with over 1 gram of fiber

BHT in the CHEX cereals

Eggs

gluten-free oats

Dairy and soy 

soy protein

many artificial sweeteners like malic acid, HFCs, xylitol, etc.  

any of the gums [which means most ] GF processed foods. 

guar gum, locust bean gum, chicory root, and onions/green onions.

 

Issues with the gums

Xanthan gum used to be made from corn product and now it  can be made with
lots of chemicals. It is possible your body is having a reaction to one of
the chemicals.

Gums were once used as ways to lose weight because their natural effect is
diarrhea. There's a warning on most packages. Sugars that end in tol, like
xylitol, do the same thing. 

A thread about gums and gut issues:
http://chriskresser.com/harmful-or-harmless-xanthan-gum/#comments

 

An interesting note from Ellen: 

 

I think there is a bigger problem than xanthan gum, which has a known
laxative affect in some people. The big problem is Cellulose, which comes
from pine or birch trees. The FDA has allowed cellulose (think sanitized
sawdust, which is what it really is) to be added to foods, supplements and
medicines. I cannot digest cellulose, well actually no one can. Supposedly
it passes harmless through our intestines, but with celiac and all of the
damage we have had, I don’t know that it really leaves our bodies all that
fast.

 

And  Melissa expressed so many good points so well that I am including her
entire response here:

I think a lot of people jump to the conclusion that whenever they get sick
it¹s gluten.

Xanthan gum is a laxative and is used in medicine as such. I get cramps and
diarrhea if I consume something with too much xanthan gum in it. I¹ve done
controlled experiments on myself comparing the same recipe made with and
without xanthan gum to isolate the problem. Some GF products and recipes
have an excessive amount. Guar gum is also a laxative, and I have a similar
problem with it. Interestingly enough, psyllium husk can be used to bind GF
breads. It¹s a laxative too, but a gentler one, and so far I have not had an
issue using it.

Another thing that can cause gluten-like symptoms is food poisoning. We have
to remember that having celiac disease doesn¹t magically protect you against
salmonella, e-coli, giardia, norovirus, or any of the other foodborne
illnesses.

And finally, when one does get sick, it¹s next to impossible to say which
food is the culprit, because foodborne illnesses can take several days to
manifest. You can get sick a few hours after eating a GF pizza, and it is
natural to blame the last thing you ate. But it could just as easily be
e-coli from a chicken you ate 4 days earlier, or an improperly handled salad
from 5 days earlier. There is really no way for the consumer to tell, unless
you do repeated experiments with the food item and control for all the
variables. When a person tries something once, gets sick, and blames it on
gluten, that has no credibility whatsoever.

And finally, I think people need to be careful about making accusations of
contamination or worse, and possibly slandering a business that is trying to
provide us with safe food. We need to get the facts first before scaring
everybody away from a product or a restaurant that may be perfectly safe,
just because we got sick once.

And another hopeful substitute, from Kathleen: 

 

I've used 1 tsp. ground chia in about 1 tbl hot water. Shauna Ahern (GF
Girl) suggested that - some recipes need more. I don't know if it works for
everything, though.

 

Next up: What have you substituted for gums and how did it work for you?
I’ll create a new post for this topic.

 


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