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Clean amaranth is a gluten-free grain --it's not a monocot as all gluten 
containing grains are and so has had one hundred million years to evolve away 
from monocots. The question as to whether commercial amaranth is gluten-free 
is then that of whether it is sufficiently free of gluten contaminants.

I have been trying some amaranth grain(not flour) from Bob's Red Mill for a 
breakfast cereal.  It is not labelled gluten-free. I have examined a 10 gram 
sample with a magnifying glass which allows me to see individual grains. 
Amaranth grains are yellow. In that sample there are 2 spherical black grains 
and about 5 spherical yellow grains with a partial red covering. The latter 
presumably are amaranth grains that have whose outer covering has not been 
completely removed. No gluten grain is spherical. I conclude that this sample 
is  pretty gluten-free.

Does anyone know if Bob has measured the gluten content of its amaranth grain?

				Kemp Randolph
				Long Island

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