Grains
01/27/04 04:23 PM
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Kandee
Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
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If you are just wheat intollerant, you CAN have rye, barley, and oats. Kamut and spelt flour is usually tolerated by wheat intollerant folks, even though they are old world wheat grains, but they lack the 2 enzymes that is the allergy culprit in new world wheat. Kamut and spelt is the MOST like the wheat you are used to, and as far as I'm concerned you can't tell the difference. There are a bunch of other grain flours; amaranth, quinoa, etc. to use but I think they taste terrible when you bake with them. Buckwheat is ok, even for celiacs and makes a delightful pancake, however it has a taste you need to acquire.
And about oats. Oats are funny. All wheat intollerant folks can have them with no problem. With Celiacs, some can, some can't....strange. The problem they feel is with cross contamination...........which is a whole other issue.
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