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Is Spelt gluten free?

The answer

No, this is a gluten grain

An ancient wheat variety. Often marketed as if it were an alternative to wheat. It is wheat.

Gluten-containing grain under 21 CFR 101.91.

Also appears on labels as2

Every one of these is the same ingredient. The number of names is a large part of why gluten slips past people who read every label.

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Where Spelt turns up

The aisle guides below cover Spelt in context — which is usually the more useful question, because an ingredient rarely appears alone.

Gluten-free breadOrdinary bread is wheat and contains gluten. Gluten-free bread is a separate product category built from rice, sorghum, tapioca and starch blends. The words thaGluten-free flourRice, sorghum, almond, coconut, cassava, buckwheat, teff and oat flours are gluten free. The two things that catch people are wheat starch, which appears in som

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Is Farro gluten free?No, this is a gluten grain

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This answer comes from CiCi's ingredient lexicon — the same rules the scanner uses, not a separate article. Where reputable sources disagree, CiCi takes the conservative position and says so.