Gluten goes by lots of names, because so many ingredients contain the Gluten protein, and the FDA does not require manufacturers to label Gluten as an allergen.
Use this G-Free Foodie Guide to Ingredient Names for Gluten to locate Gluten in food or cosmetics. Look for these items, or anything similar on product packaging to avoid Gluten. Some items, like Oats, can be processed to be Gluten-Free, but if they aren’t labeled as such, you should assume the product has Gluten.
Remember, if you see the words Wheat, Barley or Rye, or the allergen warning on a product lists Wheat, that product contains Gluten. Please see our G-Free Foodie Guide to Ingredients that MAY Contain Gluten for a list of ingredients that could contain Gluten.
- Amp-isostearoyl hydrolyzed wheat protein
- Barley, Barley grass (may contain seeds)
- Barley hordeum vulgare
- Barley malt
- Beer (Ale, Stout)
- Bleached flour
- Bran
- Bread flour
- Brewer’s yeast
- Brown flour
- Bulgur
- Cake flour (meal)
- Cereal
- Binding
- Couscous
- Dextrimaltose
- Disodium wheatgermamido peg-2 sulfosuccinate
- Durum flour
- Edible starch
- Einkorn
- Emmer
- Farina
- Filler
- Flour (usually means wheat flour)
- Fu (dried wheat gluten)
- Gliadin
- Gluten
- Graham flour
- Granary flour
- Groats (barley, wheat, oat)
- Hard wheat
- Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
- Hydrolyzed wheat gluten
- Hydrolyzed wheat protein
- Hydrolyzed wheat protein pg-propyl silanetriol
- Hydrolyzed wheat starch
- Kamut
- Macha wheat
- Malt (made from barley)
- Malt Extract, flavoring, syrup, or vinegar
- Malted milk
- Maltodextrin (US-manufactured is safe, International may be from wheat)
- Matzo meal, semolina
- Mir
- Modified Food Starch (US-manufactured is safe, International may be from wheat)
- Oat bran, oatmeal, oats, rolled oats, groats, flour (if not marked “Gluten-Free)
- Oriental wheat
- Pasta
- Pearl barley
- Persian wheat
- Polish wheat
- Poulard wheat
- Rice Malt (if barley or Koji are used)
- Rye
- Seitan
- Semolina Spelt, small
- Sprouted wheat or barley
- Stearyldimoniumhydroxypropyl hydrolyzed wheat protein
- Strong flour
- Suet (in packets)
- Textured Vegetable Protein – TVP
- Triticale (a wheat-rye blend)
- Triticale X triticosecale
- Triticum vulgare flour lipids, germ extract, germ oil
- Udon (wheat noodles)
- Unbleached flour
- Vavilovi wheat
- Vegetable starch
- Wheat (Abyssinian hard, club, common, durum, timopheevi, bulgur, Shot)
- Wheat bran extract, amino acids
- Wheat berries
- Wheat durum triticum
- Wheat germ, germ extract, germ oil, or lipids
- Wheat grass (may contain seeds)
- Wheat nuts, protein or starch
- Whole wheat, flour
- Wild einkorn, emmer
