Should You Cut Out Gluten As Well?

Have you recently started on a yeast-free diet? Or maybe you are thinking of starting on a yeast-free diet. Whichever applies to you, you may be also wondering about gluten, as many people need to follow a gluten-free diet as well. But does avoiding yeast also have to mean avoiding gluten?

Well, the thing is you see, they are actually two completely separate food intolerances, so a person can be intolerant to one without being intolerant to the other. Also, some foods contain gluten but do not contain yeast. an example of this is whole wheat pasta, which is made from wheat but doesn’t have the yeast that bread has to make it rise.

However, the truth is, many special health foods that are gluten free are also yeast free. Health food companies probably do this so that their special allergy-free foods will appeal to as many people as possible. So rather than making a load of yeast-free products and also making a load of gluten free products, they just create a load of yeast AND gluten free products. Also, for me personally, I find that I am most sensitive when I eat food that contains both. So it’s much easier just to look for foods that are both yeast and gluten free.

You also need to consider the possibility that you may actually be intolerant to both. For example, if you find that you can’t tolerate bread, then it may be both the yeast and the gluten together which are causing the most problems for your health. But once you get yourself into that mind set of always buying special “free from” foods in health food shops, you will find it much easier to cope with your food intolerance.

But the good news is: there are a lot of yeast and gluten free breads to buy in health foods shops these days. And you can even bake your own at home. It’s easy, once you have the right ingredients.

For More Information About Yeast Free Diets:

Yeast Free Cooking by Lori Winders – I really recommend this book. At 155 pages long, it’s packed full of really useful yeast-free information and yeast-free recipes.