<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear List Friends, I have an egg allergy and was looking at the ingredients on a brand of egg replacer, Just Egg. As always, I checked the ingredients, and one of them was transglutaminase. That rang a bell because tissue-transglutaminase is one of the celiac blood tests, so I googled it. As it turns out, this is the product a Canadian tv program called "meat glue" You can watch the segment at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmVCgoakDE or this Pittsburgh TV segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PE9rdmvIz0 It is used in restaurants and making processed meat patties, sausage, fake crabmeat, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, hot dogs and other foods where tiny bits of protein are stuck together to make a new product. There are quite a few medical journal articles, some of which I will list here, that suggest it can trigger celiac symptoms. I wonder if this is being used unwittingly in gluten free nuggets and other processed gf foods. I used to eat quite a bit of surimi, like hot dogs and my celiac daughter eats coldcuts, sausages and takeout salads pretty often and has periodic celiac/colitis flares. I pass these on in case anyone with unresolved symptoms may find help by studying this further. https://www.webmd.com/diet/is-transglutaminase-safe#1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037116/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00389/ful Paula in IL * Please carefully compose your subject lines in all posts * Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC