{"id":287,"date":"2007-09-22T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:22:26","slug":"dont-eat-spelt-whatever-the-independent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/dont-eat-spelt-whatever-the-independent-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t eat Spelt &#8211; whatever the Independent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\"> Independent<\/a>, my favourite newspaper, has &#8211; sadly &#8211; let me down today.<\/p>\n<p>Every Saturday, it provides a 50 Best feature, which is always interesting &#8211; how many of the 50 Best Beaches have I visited?  Would I wear any of the 50 Best Women&#8217;s Coats, and so on.  This week it is 50 Best Food Luxuries, and at no.13, it recommends spelt flour, saying &#8220;It&#8217;s perfect for the gluten-intolerant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No!  No!<\/p>\n<p>I quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coeliac.co.uk\">Coeliac UK site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spelt is an ancient strain of wheat and research indicates that it is toxic to people with coeliac disease. Spelt is not suitable for a gluten-free diet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here I thought you could believe everything you read in the newspaper &#8230; Do you think they&#8217;d be interested in 50 Best Ways to Live Gluten Free?  I&#8217;d love to have a go at that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent, my favourite newspaper, has &#8211; sadly &#8211; let me down today. Every Saturday, it provides a 50 Best feature, which is always interesting &#8211; how many of the 50 Best Beaches have I visited? Would I wear any of the 50 Best Women&#8217;s Coats, and so on. This week it is 50 Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,161],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"category-stay-healthy","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}