<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

I thought it might be interesting to see this clip from the website of
Mezzatta Inc. They go beyond what I'm sending and explain every
questionable ingredient, regarding gluten. I haven't seen this kind of
knowlege and care before. -vance

                                 Most Mezzetta brand pickled peppers and
                                     vegetables are packed with white distilled
                                            vinegar. We have the following
statement
                                            from our vinegar supplier
concerning gluten.

                                            "At present the white distilled
vinegar we are
                                            supplying you is produced from
wood sugar
                                            alcohol. At times it might be
produced from
                                            grain alcohol. We make the
following
                                            statement concerning vinegar
produced from
                                            grain alcohol: Since gluten is
one of the
                                            proteins in wheat and other
grains and is left
                                            behind when the starch is
converted to sugar,
                                            there is a possibility that
vinegar made from
                                            any non-distilled grain source
alcohol might
                                            contain gluten. However, as any
grain source
                                            alcohol used by Fleichmann's
Vinegar for
                                            making white distilled vinegar
is triple distilled,
                                            to the best of our knowledge no
gluten is
                                            present."

                                            Modified food starch is not an
ingredient
                                            currently used in Mezzetta
brand products.
                                            Natural flavors containing
hydrogenated
                                            vegetable protein are not
currently used in
                                            Mezzetta brand products. . . .

                                         and so forth and so on

You know when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Have you
got a cat?" Just once I wanna say, "Oh no, it's for company:"

* Please remember some posters may be WHEAT-FREE, but not GLUTEN-FREE *