For anyone with a wheat allergy finding great tasting wheat free chocolate can be a challenge. If you have to follow a wheat or gluten free diet knowing the ingredients of food can become a bit of an obsession.
This is understandable given that although they will not suffer an anaphylactic shock like a peanut allergy sufferer might, they will end up feeling unwell and trying to work out which food caused the problem.
Wheat allergies are extremely common.
In fact wheat is the eight most common allergy inducing food. To avoid wheat you need to become expert at reading labels at least to begin with.
Once you’ve learned what foods contain wheat and which don’t, things get a lot easier. Many food manufacturers now produce labels with good information on whether products contain flour, eggs, dairy products or are suitable for vegans and vegetarians.
However mistakes can be made and some products are even recalled because despite their labeling saying they are wheat free they are found to have what is described as undisclosed wheat or wheat contamination.
When you consider how many foods such as cakes and cookies contain flour and therefore wheat it can make for a rather boring diet so it is important to find wheat free alternatives and what could be more important than chocolate.
You might think that chocolate doesn’t contain wheat but although wheat flour is not an ingredient in chocolate products made using wheat or derivatives of wheat are sometimes used. And if that isn’t enough, if the chocolate itself doesn’t contain wheat any filling inside the bar is very likely to.
So to be safe you need to find proper wheat free chocolate products.
Companies such as the Stamp Collection, Plamil Foods and Booja Booja all make wheat free chocolate products. To find them go to health food shops and some bigger well stocked supermarkets or look online.
If you know someone with a wheat allergy it can be nice to get them a product from one of these companies at Christmas or at that chocolate obsessed holiday Easter.
You could go even further and search for a wheat free chocolate cake or brownies recipes, there are lots on line and they taste just as delicious as any with wheat.