"Thank you
for your enquiry.
The amount of gluten
detected in our liquids is very low (5ppm). This amount would be considered
to be able to be labeled “gluten free” in the UK. The law
in Australia is that to be labeled gluten free there must be no gluten
detected at all.
As you probably
are aware, coeliacs disease is a digestive disease where the body
is unable to digest gluten, a complex difficult to digest protein
found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. In fact in Coeliacs this protein
actually attacks the lining of the small intestine causing damage
that flattens out the tiny villi (finger-like protrusions for nutrient
absorption.). This damage makes it difficult to absorb many nutrients
from food often causing anemia and other malapsorption problems.
The
amount of gluten in the Grainfields liquids is extremely low and they
contain lactobacillus bacteria which through their active enzymes break
down or pre-digest the proteins and other ingredients in the product
into amino acids (which would include any gluten). It has been shown
that the presence of active bacteria in the gut of man from fermented
foods such as Grainfields can aid the digestive process in breaking
down foods, help keep the digestive organs clean and make the nutrients
more easily absorbed.
I have spoken
to customers using the BE wholegrain liquid and the Lemon & Ginger
who have gluten intolerance or coeliacs disease who have had no reaction
to the small amount of gluten in these products but rather have felt
some possible digestive benefits.
You may be interested
to know that we now have a new product called Innergy Biotic which
is gluten free. This product comes in a 1.25lt bottle at a cost of
$24.00
I
hope this information is of assistance.
Regards
Trish
Duncanson
AGM Foods Pty Ltd
Ph: 07 3396 2866
1300 304 188"
(Reprinted
with kind permission Warren Chambers (GM) via Trish Duncanson. 13/12/2007)
Culture: probiotic
sauerkraut.
