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                  Gluten free sodas are gluten free to a point
                                        
So I'm enjoying a lovely beverage at Hunters & Gatherers [1] when I notice
something odd on the label:

[I don't care about the wheat content as much as I care about the corn
content.] [2]
 

“Pardon my asking,” I said to the proprietor, “but I thought all soda was
gluten free.”

“I would think so too,” said the proprietor. “Perhaps for sweetening? Like
stevia?”

“No,” I said. “It's usually corn they use for sweetening.”

“Oh,” said the proprietor, who was doing a search on the Intarwebs [3],
“sodas might be bottled in a shared facility.”

“Okay, that makes sense.”

“And if gluten is less than 20 parts-per-million, it's considered ‘gluten-
free.’”

“How about that?”

“Well, the more you know [4] …

[1] http://coolamericanproducts.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2016/04/13/Gluten.jpg
[3] http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/Gluten-Free-Beverages/a/Gluten-Free-Soda.htm
[4] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-more-you-know

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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