Thought I was cured !!

[aklap]

from May 2007

[The Edifying Conscience]

Thanks Al!

[hangininthere]

Yes, the first e-mail I got from Coke (it was different than the one above) actually named the ingredient in Classic Coca Cola that is processed with gluten, but I forget what it was now, it was a long unfamiliar name, not listed on the label, it was something to do with the PROCESSING of that ingredient, there was a tiny amount of gluten involved in the processing of that one ingredient they named.

But most people aren't effected by it, just some, like I was, just like they said could happen to some.

I'm glad the Coke message above mentions the Codex, glad to read that, it was thorough in explaining how tiny amounts are 'allowed' without it being labeled.

It wasn't anything else I ate or drank or did that day (for example, no gluten flour allowed in my house that could have been breathed in and swallowed), I'm sure it was the Classic Coke that glutened me.

The Aldi's grocery store brand canned apple pie filling glutened me too, even though the label said otherwise.

I've read that a company is legally allowed to change ingredients without changing their label, when the changed ingredient is only a tiny percentage of the whole. Companies sometimes change ingredients depending on which 'crop' is the least expensive at the time.

I also got glutened from some Save-A-Lot grocery store brand canned great northern beans and/or canned refried beans which were mislabeled.

I tasted a spoonful of both at the same time, so am not sure which can it was that glutened me. I was too impulsive that day when testing them out, I should have tried one first, then the other a few days later. So I'm not sure which can got me that time. It very well could have been both, with the trouble I've had with some of the 'generic' canned products.

My grown son has a far more severe reaction to glutens than even me, he almost goes into a 'mild' anaphylactic shock I call it (just guessing), with violent vomiting and chills and extreme weakness laying him out flat for about an hour after.

So I'm his 'king's taste tester' I jokingly call it, and I'm so glad I happened to taste the Coke and canned apple pie filling and canned beans before he did, whew.

It was after the first 'mislabeling' incident, which was the canned apple pie filling, that I appointed myself my son's official 'king's taste tester'.

The labeling laws are coming a long way, but still need to be perfected.

Best wishes to all!

[hangininthere]

P.S.

Well, I'll be darned!

As I was editing and adding thoughts to my post above, something dawned on me after I put in the part about me not having breathed in gluten flour since it's not allowed in my house!

When I bought the Coke, it was at the tiny little pizza shop next to the laundromat I was at!

There is a possibility my glutening was from inhaling gluten flour in the pizza shop!

But, I still think it was the Coke, because me and son use the same toaster as hubby (hub's allowed his gluten bread he likes, ha), and strangely enough, we don't get a bad reaction from the toaster. Plus I've been through the in-store bakery at Giant Eagle grocery store and through the baking/flour aisle with no reaction, but that store is way bigger and maybe the gluten flours are dispersed throughout the air more than in the tiny pizza shop.

But since it was a tiny walk-in/take-out pizza shop, the gluten flour must have been rampant in the air there!

But I had such a strong reaction, I still think it was the Coke. The only way for me to make sure is to either walk into that pizza shop again and see what happens, or buy Coke somewhere else and try the Coke again.

I'd rather walk into the pizza shop again, since I think it's the Coke, haha.

When I bought some Pepsi at the pizza shop next to laundromat a prior time, before the time I bought the Coke, the Pepsi gave me a reaction too but it was a very mild reaction unlike the Coke, and that time I drank a lot of Pepsi out of the liter, unlike the few sips of Coke I had.

Well, I'll walk into the pizza shop next chance I get and do 'the test', haha.

Best wishes to all!

[The Edifying Conscience]

Perhaps the person who filled your drink or gave you the cup had gluten on his hands and that transfered to your glass.

Isn't it funny how things pop back in our memories?

[hangininthere]

I bought a liter of Coke and left and drank a few sips from the liter out in the van, and yes, the clerk could have had flour on his hands and it got on the liter or on the money he gave me for change or both.

Yep, I'm glad it dawned on me about the pizza shop, ha! You got me to thinking and double-checking for all the other possible reasons I could have gotten glutened rather than the Coke, and voila!

I still think it's the Coke that got me though, but I'm too chicken to try it again to double-check, haha. But until I get the nerve to try it again to see, I guess I better not post about Coke glutening me, just in case it was flour from the pizza shop instead!

That first e-mail I got from Coke though, did say some gluten in the processing of one of its ingredients could effect the super-sensitive. But if using a glutened toaster doesn't bother me, that Coke I had would have to have had more gluten in it than a toaster crumb!

Well, I'll post here on this thread if I ever try the Coke again (not bought at the pizza shop, haha)!

Best wishes!