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What to eat if you have celiac disease
In the diet for celiac disease, the foods belonging to the various product classes are divided into 3 lists:
- PERMITS (gluten-free)
- AT RISK
- PROHIBITED OR PROHIBITED (with gluten)
Among the "at risk" foods there are some products that may be gluten-free, therefore suitable for celiacs, but which may also have an "unknown botanical origin or be" at risk of contamination in the various stages of production ". for this purpose, the GLUTEN-FREE COMMERCE PRODUCTS HANDBOOK prepared by the Italian Celiac Association The food products guaranteed by gluten-free manufacturers are indicated on this handbook.
Cereals and Flours
Allowed foods
- Rice, cream of rice Early Childhood
- * corn (maize), corn kernels (maize), homemade popcorn
- * cream of corn and tapioca; cream of rice, corn and early childhood tapioca
- buckwheat
- manioc
- * mile
- * sesame
- soy
- bread, breadsticks, focaccia, pizzas prepared with permitted ingredients
- pasta, stuffed pasta, gnocchi prepared with permitted ingredients
* totally gluten-free diet products (without wheat starch)
Food at risk
- * starch, native starch, modified starch, pregelatinised starch, dextrinized starch
- * malt, maltodextrin, malt extract, maltose; dextrose
- * rice flour, rice starch, rice semolina, rice cream
- * corn flour, pre-cooked and instant polenta flour, ready-made polenta, cornstarch (corn starch)
- * carob flour
- * Chestnut flour
- * chickpea flour
- * coconut flour
- * buckwheat flour
- * almond flour
- * millet flour
- * sesame flour
- * soy flour
- * potato starch
- * tapioca
- * pods of: corn, potatoes
- * vegetable fibers, dietary fibers
- * corn flakes, rice, soy, tapioca without added malt
- * rice crackers
- * packaged popcorn
- ready risottos (in bags, frozen, flavored)
Doubtful foods, not recommended
- quinoa
- amaranth
- teff (tef grass)
Prohibited foods
- wheat (grain), rye, oats, barley, spelled, spelled, kamut, triticale, sorghum
- gluten (gliadin and prolamine) of: wheat (wheat), rye, oats, barley, spelled, kamut spelled, triticale, sorghum
- flours, starch, meal, creams and flakes of: wheat, rye, oats, barley, spelled, spelled, kamut, triticale, sorghum, KOKOH
- multigrain cream
- pasta, stuffed pasta, potato gnocchi, Roman-style gnocchi;
- pizzoccheri
- bread, toast, breadcrumbs; rye bread, oat bread, cereal bread, soy bread, corn, iron; unleavened bread
- wholemeal bread, wraps; taralli; croutons, pretzels
- focaccia, pizza, panzerotti, breadsticks, crackers, rusks, cracotte, crepes
- wheat germ
- muesli, porridge
- couscous, tabbouleh, bulgur (boulgour burghul), seitan, frik, cracked grain, greunkern, gries
- wheat muscle
- * bran from banned cereals; vegetable fibers and dietary fibers from prohibited cereals
- malt, malt extract, maltodextrin from prohibited cereals
- flakes of: corn, rice, soy, tapioca with the addition of "FORBIDDEN CEREALS" malt
- * polenta taragna (if buckwheat flour is mixed with wheat flour)
- * particles (hosts)
- * all foods prepared with the flours mentioned above
- flour, bread, rusks and dietary toasts with traces of gluten (with wheat starch)
Sweets
Allowed foods
- biscuits, sweets, cakes prepared with permitted flour and ingredients
- biscuits, sweets, cakes, snacks, wafers, diet snacks totally gluten-free (without wheat starch)
- * honey, sugar (white granulated, cane, wholemeal)
- * licorice root, pure licorice
Food at risk
- * chocolate drinks
- * soy puddings and desserts
- * cocoa
- candies, licorice candies, lollipops, sugared almonds, jellies and candied fruit
- chewing gum
- chocolate, chocolates, chocolate pralines, cocoa mass
- * creams, puddings, desserts, mousses, panna cotta
- spreads
- * packaged or ice cream ice creams, sorbets, ice lollies and granitas; semi-finished products for ice cream parlors
- * fruit jelly, jelly for sweets
- * jams and marmalades, chestnut creams
- * marron glaces
- Marzipan
- * molasses, maple syrup
- pralines, sugared almonds, sprinkles to decorate cakes
- * prepared for hot chocolate and cappuccino
- * nougat, crunchy, almond (sticks with dried fruit)
- * vanillin
- * icing sugar, vanilla icing, in grains
Prohibited foods
- * biscuits, desserts, cakes, pastries, snacks, snacks, wafers
- Muesli bars
- * cone and waffles for ice cream
- dietary biscuits and sweets with traces of gluten (with wheat starch)
Dairy product
Allowed foods
- fresh, long-life milk
- fresh and aged cheeses
- * whole and low-fat natural yogurt
- * fresh cream
Food at risk
- * fruit and flavored yogurt
- * soy yogurt
- * yogurt cream
- flavored milk
- condensed milk
- milk with fiber
- cheeses: melted, spreadable, cheeses, sliced, light, fruit cheeses, cheeses with a flowery rind (such as Brie, Golden Chamois)
- soy cheeses (Tofu)
- long-life cream (cooking, whipping, spray)
- vegetable cream replacing cream
Prohibited foods
- "FORBIDDEN CEREALS" malt milk and cereals
- "FORBIDDEN CEREALS" malt yogurt and cereals
- blue cheeses (such as: gorgonzola, roquefort, Danish Blue)
Meat, Fish, Eggs
Allowed foods
- all types of meat, poultry, fish, crustaceans, molluscs
- raw ham
- egg
Food at risk
- raw, cooked, fresh and seasoned cold cuts and sausages: cooked ham, coppa, pancetta, speck, bresaola, pancetta, mortadella (or bologna), wurstel, salami,
- cotechino, zampone, sausage
- ready roasts
- canned meat
- packaged meat sauce
- canned tripe
- surimi
Prohibited foods
- breaded meat and fish (e.g. Milanese cutlet) or floured (e.g. escalopes) or with sauces thickened with prohibited flours.
- fresh and / or frozen meat and fish burgers with the addition of flour and / or breadcrumbs
- fresh and / or frozen meat and fish with the addition of flour and / or pagrattato
Vegetables and Legumes
Allowed foods
- any quality of vegetables
- all types of legumes and dried: carob, chickpeas, cicerchia, beans, broad beans, okra beans, lentils, lupins, peas, soy
- * fresh and dried mushrooms
- * olives
Food at risk
- some types of frozen vegetables (e.g. pre-fried potatoes; mashed potatoes; mixed side dishes)
- potato chips (snacks)
- preparations for soups, purées, minestrone and legume soups
- (frozen ready-to-use to be cooked freeze-dried)
- instant mashed potatoes
Prohibited foods
- breaded and floured vegetables with prohibited ingredients
- preparations for soups, purées, minestrone and legume soups with spelled, barley and other forbidden cereals (frozen ready-to-use to be cooked freeze-dried)
Fruit
Allowed foods
- fresh fruit
- dried fruit (e.g. almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, pine nuts, cashews, pistachios), chestnuts and peanuts
- roasted dried fruit without vegetable oil
Food at risk
- candied fruit
- canned fruit
- roasted nuts with vegetable oil
Prohibited foods
- floured dried fruit
Fats and seasonings
Allowed foods
- butter, lard, lard
- oil of: extra-virgin olive, olive, peanut, sunflower, corn, palm, rice, safflower seeds, soy, grape seeds
Food at risk
- * light butter (light)
- * peanut butter (peanuts butter)
- margarine, light margarine, margarine for cakes
- * various seed oil
- vegetable oil
- vegetable fat
- MISO OF RICE
- TAMARI
- TEMPEH
- condiments with an undefined composition
Prohibited foods
- Wheat germ oil
- BARLEY MISO
- SHOYU
Drinks
Allowed foods
- carbonated drinks
- chamomile, tea, decaffeinated tea, herbal teas: in filter bags
- coffee beans and ground, decaffeinated coffee beans and ground
- white, red, rosé wine; Holy wine
- sparkling wine, champagne
- distillates: brandy (or grappa of wine and marc),
- Armagnac, Calvados, Sognac (or Brandy), Port, Rum, Slivovitz, Tequila, Vermouth
- normal or egg marsala
Food at risk
- non-alcoholic tea and coffee drinks
- light carbonated drinks
- rice drinks
- soy drinks
- sports drinks
- soluble coffee
- almond milk
- ready-made mixes for milkshakes
- soluble preparations for tea, chamomile, herbal teas
- syrups
- fruit juices and nectars
- bitters and liqueurs (alcohol-based + other ingredients) not included in the list of permits
Prohibited foods
- drinks containing malt, barley, oats, wheat, rye
- malt soy drinks OF PROHIBITED CEREALS
- cereal soy drinks
- beer, whiskey, wodka
- barley coffee
- coffee substitutes containing barley, rye, oats, wheat;
- roasted grain mixes
- YANNOH
Broths, soups, soups
Allowed foods
- vegetable and meat broth
- soups, purées and broths prepared with permitted food ingredients
Food at risk
- nuts, meat extracts, vegetable extracts, broth preparations
- preparations for soups, purées, minestrone and legume soups (frozen ready-to-use to be cooked freeze-dried)
Prohibited foods
- preparations for soups, purées, minestrone and legume soups with spelled, barley and other prohibited cereals (frozen ready-to-use to be cooked freeze-dried)
Various Spices and Aromas
Allowed foods
- wine vinegar
- * mayonnaise and bechamel prepared with allowed ingredients
- products in wine vinegar, in oil of: olive, extra virgin, olive, peanuts, corn, soy, sunflower, grape seeds
- * salt, pepper, aromatic herbs and spices
- seeds of: cumin, sunflower, flax, poppy, sesame, pumpkin
- * sauces, pesto, sauces prepared with the permitted ingredients
Food at risk
- fruit and grain vinegar
- thickeners, gelling agents, release agents
- aromas
- isinglass, gelatin sheets (for sweet and savory), gelatin (for sweet and savory)
- sweeteners
- yeast extract
- soy lecithin
- natural and chemical yeast
- mayonnaise, sauces, soy sauce
- mustard
- mixtures of aromas for roasts and dishes
- * Royal jelly
- * anchovy paste
- pate
- vegetable proteins, protein hydrolysates
- * fruit or cereal pickled products
- products in various seed oil
- GLUCOSE SYRUP
- ready-to-use sauces and pesto on the market
- * saffron
Prohibited foods
- bechamel
- Koji