Sadly, I have to report an alert from Sainsbury’s about their rich fruit cake slices, which have accidentally been contaminated with wheat gluten. Here’s the information: Product: Rich fruit cake slices Sainsbury’s have recalled the product and are displaying notices in all stores to alert customers. If you’ve bought this product, check the date – and if you’ve bought from this batch, don’t eat it, but take it back for a refund. |
Here’s interesting: Heinz have a link to information about their gluten free foods from the home page of their corporate site. Look, right in there among the Annual Report, Investor Relations and Careers material…
I’ve always loved Heinz for their labelling, and often recommend to worried parents of small children recently diagnosed that jacket potatoes with cheese and Heinz baked beans – or Heinz baked beans and sausages – is a nice, easy, gluten free meal to start with. (Only if you’re in the UK, though – recipes vary!). Heinz are providing details of their gluten free products and questions about the gluten free diet answered by their Director of Global Nutrition, (both on their corporate site) so they are definitely taking it seriously. Helpfully, their list of gluten free products indicates in which countries these are gluten free. And I didn’t know that Bi-Aglut was now part of the Heinz family – always something new to learn! |
Here’s a very informative quiz about your mineral intake, provided by Goodness Direct. It’s very revealing – we could probably all do better! How did you score? |
I was contacted recently by Ecklee, who supply a wide variety of foods from around the world. Ecklee means ‘My Food’ in Arabic, and they source food from around the world. They wanted a link from this site to theirs; a request I get often, and one which isn’t always appropriate. However, in this case, I thought you’d be interested, particularly if you like the kind of foods that they can supply. They’ve been in business for 20 years, apparently, but are not at all oldfashioned in their marketing: they’re on Twitter. They stock a range of different types of item, including kitchen equipment and books – but primarily they stock food. Commendably, the Ecklee site lets you search by region (if you know that what you want comes from Syria, say) or by a number of other criteria, notably ‘gluten free’. Yay! I do love it when a site tries to make things easy. Like so many other sites, though, the list of items under ‘gluten free’ isn’t everything that they offer that is gluten free. For example, under this list is a range of gluten free Indian sauces, but I’m prepared to bet that there are other things that they offer that are gluten free, such as some of the herbs, spices, pickles, dried fruits, teas, coffee and more. Question for Ecklee: are the products such as the Dosai mix gluten free? And the stuffed vine leaves? I believe Ecklee could expand the list of gluten free products without having to stock any additional items. I wish them good luck with their internet marketing campaign, because anyone who makes things easier for coeliacs is OK in my book! |
I’m going to have to beg them never to do that again. I ate the whole packet. There’s just something about them that renders all my willpower ineffective, and I know it isn’t just me. I’m not even that fond of coconut as a rule, but these are just yummy. If you’ve a stronger will than me, and can stop at one – which, I confess, would be the perfect number, and they are mini – then I can recommend them. Now then, where did I put my gym kit? I’ve some calories to work off…  |
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