Gluten Free Watchdog Special Report on Barley Amylase: Is this enzyme safe to include in a gluten-free diet?
To help find out, products containing barley amylase were tested for gluten using high sensitivity liquid chromatography- multiple reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry.
The full report is available HERE.
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Damn it, just why? do they have to put some small amount of crap into perfectly good food? As if I’d ever notice a difference in the taste of rice milk without this barley stuff? I’m sure there’s some Modern Food Processing & Safety reason for it, but ugh.
I love enriched Rice Dream just because I like it, but also it’s a source of vitamin B-12 that I need. Homemade rice milk seems to go bad instantly — maybe because I’m skipping the barley amylase, ha ha.
As always, thank you GFWD for what you do.
Does anyone know about Hallelujah Acres Barley Max which states its”s gluten free?
This looks to be a barley grass product. This is what the FDA says about grasses, “The young grasses of the plants belonging to genera Triticum, Secale, and Hordeum are different from the grains wheat, rye, and barley these plants produce at maturity. Therefore, to be consistent with FDA’s proposed requirements, any grass (or grass juice) could be used as an ingredient to make a food labeled GF, provided that the food does not contain 20 ppm or more gluten, regardless of its source, including the presence of gluten due to cross-contact situations.”