i usually steer clear of any holiday candies, because most companies expand to use additional facilities to ramp up production for holiday candies. this means they're not necessarily in the same gluten-free factories as usual. several of the companies advise of this. the hershey company prints "gluten free" on the candy they have tried to make sure aren't cross contaminated, and holiday candy rarely has it
I respect everyone's own individual choices and I also share the research behind the risks of gluten-free vs not facilities AND cross-contact in processing in my TOTALLY FREE label-reading class for people who haven't seen it to help them make their own informed decisions. It is true, Hershey does not often have gluten-free claims on their holiday candies and this is where I refer people back to the conversation I had with them where they stated (slightly paraphrased here but you can see the full statement in the video): they don't always have a gluten-free claim on products that qualify for it.
I always steer clear of anything that isn't marked gluten free from Hershey because there is a reason they aren't willing to put that gluten free bar on it. For our child we can't risk any cross contamination even with good cleaning practices and since Hersheys statement said that they don't put the gluten free mark where cross-contamination is possible. When she is older she can make choices that she is comfortable with but we don't want to risk making her sick. Thankfully we have found a bunch of great other options she is happy with. We are lucky that all our kids are veggie addicts so it makes life alot easier to manage and we make alot from scratch. Now if we can figure out how to get her to Italy and in a culinary school she would be one happy little girl.😊
I think it's respectable that you're waiting for her to make her own informed choice! If you haven't already watched my free label-reading class, I still think you'll find it immensely helpful :)
Great info, thanks for this. I figured that the holiday ones weren't safe but ill give them a try. As someone with celiac that was diagnosed 4 years ago in my 30s, I didn't know about the possible lactose issues and that correlation. Also have you found any safe candy corn/pumpkins candies?
Of course, happy to help. I have not checked any candy corn or pumpkin candies because I've never enjoyed them much BUT I will say, I'm confident if you watch my free label-reading class (linked in the description) you'll have the tools to trust yourself to check them :)
occasionally i'll find some random brand i've never heard of that say GF on them, but brach's is "no purposeful gluten, but no cross-contamination precautions taken" and i don't eat it. it's a shame, i love candy corn
I did the label reading class as a new celiac, and it really did give me a good foundation of knowledge and confidence.
That makes me so happy to hear! Having that solid foundation in finding GF food is so important.
i usually steer clear of any holiday candies, because most companies expand to use additional facilities to ramp up production for holiday candies. this means they're not necessarily in the same gluten-free factories as usual. several of the companies advise of this. the hershey company prints "gluten free" on the candy they have tried to make sure aren't cross contaminated, and holiday candy rarely has it
I respect everyone's own individual choices and I also share the research behind the risks of gluten-free vs not facilities AND cross-contact in processing in my TOTALLY FREE label-reading class for people who haven't seen it to help them make their own informed decisions.
It is true, Hershey does not often have gluten-free claims on their holiday candies and this is where I refer people back to the conversation I had with them where they stated (slightly paraphrased here but you can see the full statement in the video): they don't always have a gluten-free claim on products that qualify for it.
I always steer clear of anything that isn't marked gluten free from Hershey because there is a reason they aren't willing to put that gluten free bar on it. For our child we can't risk any cross contamination even with good cleaning practices and since Hersheys statement said that they don't put the gluten free mark where cross-contamination is possible. When she is older she can make choices that she is comfortable with but we don't want to risk making her sick. Thankfully we have found a bunch of great other options she is happy with. We are lucky that all our kids are veggie addicts so it makes life alot easier to manage and we make alot from scratch.
Now if we can figure out how to get her to Italy and in a culinary school she would be one happy little girl.😊
I think it's respectable that you're waiting for her to make her own informed choice! If you haven't already watched my free label-reading class, I still think you'll find it immensely helpful :)
Great info, thanks for this. I figured that the holiday ones weren't safe but ill give them a try. As someone with celiac that was diagnosed 4 years ago in my 30s, I didn't know about the possible lactose issues and that correlation.
Also have you found any safe candy corn/pumpkins candies?
Of course, happy to help.
I have not checked any candy corn or pumpkin candies because I've never enjoyed them much BUT I will say, I'm confident if you watch my free label-reading class (linked in the description) you'll have the tools to trust yourself to check them :)
occasionally i'll find some random brand i've never heard of that say GF on them, but brach's is "no purposeful gluten, but no cross-contamination precautions taken" and i don't eat it. it's a shame, i love candy corn