{"id":2473,"date":"2013-04-01T18:43:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:03:05","slug":"gluten-free-at-tim-horton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/gluten-free-diet\/gluten-free-restaurant\/gluten-free-at-tim-horton\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten-free at Tim Horton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gluten-free at Tim Hortons, is this possible?\u00a0 Tim Hortons specializes in gluten filled food such as doughnuts and cookies, so is there anything you can eat it Tim Horton’s?<\/p>\n

I called their head office to find out and this article is about what I learned.
\nSurprisingly, there is food that you can eat gluten-free at Tim Hortons.\u00a0 Caveat<\/strong>: this according to Tim Hortons themselves, and someone has left a comment saying the food is not gluten free.\u00a0 See note at bottom of article. \u00a0 Caution:<\/strong> food could be cross contaminated.\u00a0 Because everything is made in an open concept kitchen, there is no guarantee that foods that have no wheat added are really and truly gluten-free.<\/p>\n

According to Chloe at Tim Horton’s guest services, the soups are all gluten-free.\u00a0 You can order the French onion soup broth only, no crust.\u00a0 This doesn’t sound like a great option.\u00a0 However, hearty potato bacon, turkey and wild rice, and creamy sun-dried tomato soups are all okay.\u00a0 Chili is okay to.<\/p>\n

The yogurt with fruit is a good bet also.<\/p>\n

For breakfast, hash browns, eggs, bacon and sausage are all okay.\u00a0 She suggested that the hash browns could be used to make a kind of sandwich with the eggs and bacon in between.\u00a0 That’s a good idea!<\/p>\n

I asked further about cross-contamination.\u00a0 She cited using the same rag to clean items with gluten and then items without gluten, such as cooking utensils.\u00a0 Also, someone may use gloved hands to touch something with gluten and then something that should be gluten-free.\u00a0 Foods go down the same conveyor belt.\u00a0 It is unclear how doughnuts going down the same belt would contaminate chili, for example, since each should be properly enclosed in a container.\u00a0 However, I asked further she cited proprietary protection for not giving further details.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, Tim Hortons has some reduced gluten food possibilites, although like most restaurants, one cannot be sure that it is truly gluten-free.\u00a0 See note below.<\/p>\n

Important Note:<\/strong>According to one of our readers who has left a comment below, cross-contamination makes Tim Hortons unsuitable for celiacs.\u00a0 Further more, some of the soups contain barely, which contains gluten, so basically, the folks at Tim Hortons are clueless about gluten-free.\u00a0 Eating here is not recommended if you are avoiding wheat or gluten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Have you tried to eat gluten-free food at Tim Horton’s?\u00a0 What was your experience?\u00a0 Please leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gluten-free at Tim Hortons, is this possible?\u00a0 Tim Hortons specializes in gluten filled food such as doughnuts and cookies, so is there anything you can eat it Tim Horton’s? I called their head office to find out and this article is about what I learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[283],"tags":[36,37,234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}