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Table 7.3.2 Foods to include or eliminate in a gluten-free diet

Food groups Foods allowed Foods to eliminate Special gluten-free foods
Group 1: Starchy foods: available
bread, rice, potatoes, Rice, potatoes, yam, millet,
pasta and other starchy sago, tapioca, quinoa Any foods made from Gluten-free flours,
foods Flours made from wheat, rye, barley, spelt or cereals, breads, crackers
arrowroot, buckwheat, oats. This includes a large and crispbreads. Some
Group 2: Fruit and chick peas (gram flour), range of commercial bread, are prescribable
vegetables corn, lentil, maize and rice pasta, couscous, semolina,
Group 3: Milk, cheese Some brands of corn flakes crackers, breakfast cereals,
and yogurt and rice krispies pizza bases, buns, pancakes

Group 4: Meat, fish, Fresh, frozen, tinned and Vegetable soups thickened
eggs, nuts and pulses dried fruits and vegetables with wheat flour

Group 5: Foods high in Breast milk, infant formulas, Milk puddings that are
fat and/or sugar follow-on milks, cow’s milk, thickened with wheat flour
goat’s milk, toddler milks,
Fluids yogurts, cheese, milk Any foods coated in flour, Chick pea, lentil and
puddings, calcium-enriched
soya milks, tofu batter or breadcrumbs gram flour

Meat, fish, eggs, nuts and Biscuits, cakes, foods with Gluten-free biscuits,
pulses (lentils, dhal, chick pastry cakes and pastry
peas, hummus, kidney Most commercial sauces
beans and other similar are thickened with wheat
starchy beans) flour
Ready meals will often
Cream, butter, margarines, contain flour
cooking and salad oils, jam, Some drinks contain barley
honey, syrup, crisps, most
soft drinks

Water, milk, diluted fruit
juices

suitability. Although foods are often marked as coeliac disease are entitled to a certain quantity on
‘gluten free’ on the label, the ingredients list needs prescription from their GP.
to be checked for any of the following ingredients,
which contain gluten or avenin: wheat, farina, The prescribable foods are all allocated a unit:
flour, rusk, semolina, starch, vegetable protein,
wheatgerm and wheatgerm oil, rye, barley, barley Food No. of units
malt, oats and spelt. 400 g bread 1
100–250 g rolls/baguettes ½
Coeliac UK (www.coeliac.org.uk) is the charity 250–400 g rolls/baguettes 1
that offers support and advice to families with 500 g bread mix/flour mix 2
coeliac disease. Each year they update their Food 100 g savoury biscuits/crackers ½
and Drink Directory, which lists all the gluten-free 200 g savoury biscuits/crackers/ 1
commercial foods available in the UK. crispbreads
250 g pasta 1
Prescribable gluten-free foods 500 g pasta 2
2 ×110–180 g pizza bases 1
There are many specialist food companies that
make gluten-free food products, and children with