A gluten-free diet means that you must avoid all gluten at all times for health reasons.

The following people must follow a gluten-free diet:

• People with celiac disease
• People with a gluten allergy
• People who are intolerant to gluten

Foods with gluten in them include wheat, barley and rye. Most people avoid oats as well due to cross-contamination issues.

A wheat-free diet will eliminate most of the gluten from your food, but not all. Barley is a second important ingredient to avoid.

Staying on a gluten-free diet may seem challenging. Actually, there is a great deal of gluten-free food available. Most of it is not specialty, in other words, you can eat well without buying only specially marked food.

Specially marked food is helpful though for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it inspires confidence.

For another, this can guide you towards substitutes for foods that are almost always made of wheat, for example bread and pasta.

Food from on-Western countries can be a great way of discovering new non-wheat, non-gluten food starch ingredients.

There is also plenty of wheat-free, gluten-free food in the Western diet, including meat, dairy and vegetables, and starches like corn and potatoes.

There are many articles on this website to help you navigate a gluten-free diet.

Internal Links

• Gluten Allergy Symptoms
• Gluten-Free Recipes
• Foods to Avoid for Wheat-Free Diet
• Safe Foods for a Wheat-Free Diet

External Links

• Wikipedia on gluten

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