Wheat

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How to Read a Label for a Wheat-Free Diet

All FDA-regulated manufactured food products that contain wheat as an ingredient are required by U.S. law to list the word “wheat” on the product label. The law defines any species in the genus Triticum as wheat.

Avoid foods that contain wheat or any of these ingredients:

  • bread crumbs
  • bulgur
  • cereal extract
  • club wheat
  • couscous
  • cracker meal
  • durum
  • einkorn
  • emmer
  • farina
  • flour (all purpose, bread, cake, durum, enriched, graham, high gluten, high protein, instant, pastry, self-rising, soft wheat, steel ground, stone ground, whole wheat)
  • hydrolyzed wheat protein
  • Kamut©
  • matzoh, matzoh meal (also spelled as matzo, matzah, or matza)
  • pasta
  • seitan
  • semolina
  • spelt
  • sprouted wheat
  • triticale
  • vital wheat gluten
  • wheat (bran, durum, germ, gluten, grass, malt, sprouts, starch)
  • wheat bran hydrolysate
  • wheat germ oil
  • wheat grass
  • wheat protein isolate
  • whole wheat berries

Wheat is sometimes found in the following:

  • glucose syrup
  • soy sauce
  • starch (gelatinized starch, modified starch, modified food starch, vegetable starch)
  • surimi