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Post by zuzu18 on Aug 14, 2006 10:18:58 GMT -5
This is my first post, so hi! I was wondering if anyone knows if spelt is a good alternative to the no wheat diet for endo. Foods made from spelt have to have a lable that says "Spelt is wheat" but I believe that is for the sake of people who are allergic to wheat. Is spelt ok for people with endo? Thank you!
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Post by erzulie on Aug 14, 2006 13:35:03 GMT -5
Welcome zuzu! Check out our thread on wheat here: cjlevett.proboards33.com/index.cgi?board=diet&action=display&thread=1144117659I have done a lot of research on foods that are bad for endometriosis and why they are bad, and have found nothing on wheat. I don't think wheat IS bad for endometriosis, though if you have some other sensitivity to wheat it could make your symptoms worse. I have heard of people who have trouble with wheat but who do ok with spelt, so if you know you have a wheat problem it would be worth trying I would think. If you don't know for sure whether you have a wheat problem, maybe you should do some experiments to find out first.
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Post by mirix on Sept 27, 2011 14:12:54 GMT -5
I'm trying to replace wheat flour from my diet and found that there is a spelt flour. Does anyone know if it's allowed in the endo diet?
Thanks a lot. Love!
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Post by Heather on Sept 27, 2011 17:02:00 GMT -5
Spelt contains gluten and is related to wheat, so if you are trying to go gluten free, I would say no. I think rice flour, quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat are all okay.
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Post by Karen on Sept 27, 2011 20:44:32 GMT -5
If you do a Google search, you can find some flour substitute mixes that are supposed to be almost as good as the real thing. There's a cookbook that a member suggested called "Cooking for Iseah" (spelling?) that was written by a baker and she came up with a good mixtures of different types of flour that reacted similarly to wheat flour. I never tried it, but I know there are options that exist!
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Post by 1234 on Sept 28, 2011 13:34:58 GMT -5
my rule of thumb (a bit ghetto) is just to add some xanthum gum and corn starch (roughly 1 tsp each per cup of flour) in order to make a gluten free flour work in a regular flour recipe. This is for yeast breads. You sort of have to play around with it, but generally that's a good guiding principle.
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Post by hellsbells on Sept 29, 2011 11:52:33 GMT -5
Part of the problem with modern day wheat is how highly processed it is, so spelt is a good option to replace wheat. As mentioned above though, it does still contain gluten.
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Post by mirix on Oct 3, 2011 15:41:54 GMT -5
Thanks 4 all the answers! And wheat germ? Does anyone know if it's alllowed? Thanks,
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Post by hellsbells on Oct 7, 2011 15:13:58 GMT -5
Wheat germ I think is just the wholewheat part of wheat, so it's still wheat with gluten.
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