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Here is the letter that I receivd from Giant Food store today. I have seen a similar version last March, I am not sure if this includes any updates. Giant seemed to think some things may have changed since that time. Tammy
Thank you for taking the time to contact Giant. We appreciate your interest in knowing about gluten in Super G or Giant products. We can research any Super G or Giant items with which you may have a concern. We do not have a complete list, the products in this letter are products which have been recently checked. Please note that we anticipate supplier changes in the next year, so check back with us if these items are of continued interest. Always read the label - ingredients change. We cannot be held responsible for individual reactions to a product.
We have been told by our suppliers that these products are gluten free:
Dairy Department
Butter: salted, unsalted
Cheeses (packaged): Chunk, Shredded, Slices, Stick & Cubed Cheese: New
York Sharp, Wisconsin Sharp and Wisconsin white sharp, Sharp and mild
Cheddars;, Colby Longhorn, Harvarti, Jack, Pepper Jack, Mozzarella,
Muenster, Pasteurized Processed American and cheese food including Reduced
fat, Fat Free, Cottage Cheese, all types Cream cheese; all types Creams:
table, half & half Egg Nog Egg substitute Milk: all types including
chocolate, buttermilk and skim
deluxe Ricotta cheese: all types
Yogurt: plain
Deli and service deli department
Rotisserie chickens: oven roasted, Italian and Lemon Pepper
Tortilla Chips (paper bag) white, yellow, blue, unsalted and tricolor
Frozen Foods
Assorted pops
Citrus pops
Combo cremes ice cream bars (vanilla-chocolate coated)
Dreamy Tofu
Ice cream, including high includsion with candy bars, etc. all flavors
(except cookies and cream and chocolate chip cookie dough)
Ice cream cups, vanilla
No-sugar added fudge bars
Red, white and blue pops
Sherbet (all flavors)
Twin pops
Potatoes (unseasoned): regular, crinkle, shoestring, steak, hash browns, puffs (taters)
Vegetables: Broccoli in cheese sauce, Peas in butter sauce, Broccoli spears, green beans (cut, French, petite and whole) greens (turnip, collard, kale, mustard), carrots (baby and sliced) limas (baby and Fordhook) spinach (leaf and chopped) okra (whole and cut), diced peppers, chopped onions
Grocery Department
Applesauce
Barbecue Sauce (all flavors)
Beans, dry and canned including Pork & Beans and Vegetarian
Cheese, grated parmesan, fat free and Romano blend in jar or canister
Cherries, light sweet, dark and water pack Cherries, Maraschino
Chocolate syrup, can and squeeze bottle
Coconut, flaked sweetened
Coffee, whole bean, flavored
Cranberry juice cocktail: all flavors and 100% Cranberry sauce (whole & jellied)
Fruit Snacks
Grits,
Quick Hot Sauce
Jellies, preserves and fruit spreads
Juices: cranberry, tomato, vegetable
Kids fun pops
Lemon juice
Mushrooms: stems and pieces, button and no salt
Mustard, yellow, Dijon and brown
Nuts: honey roasted peanuts, party peanuts, mixed nuts, cashews, all dry roasted peanuts, cashews and mixed nuts
Oils: canola, corn, peanut, sunflower, vegetable Olives,ripe (black)
Pasta sauce: Tomato Basil, Roasted Garlic, Four Cheese
Peanut Butter: creamy and chunky
Pickle Relish, Sweet & Hot Dog Pickles, all types
Pie filling, cherry
Popcorn, Bagged butter flavored
Pork and beans, vegetarian beans
Pudding Snacks: Chocolate, Vanilla and Tapioca
Raisins, Seedless (packaged)
Rice, brown, white and instant
Salt: iodized and non-iodized
Shortening, vegetable
Soup: Chicken Broth
Sunflower seeds: dry roasted and unsalted
Syrup: cane & maple, lite pancake, pancake with butter
Tea: Regular and Decaffeinated
Tomatoes for cooking, diced tomatoes, crushed, stewed, no-salt added Tomato Juice Tomato paste Tomato sauce (regular and no-salt added)
Vegetables, canned: creamed corn white and gold corn, green beans, sliced beets, Irish potatoes, peas, wax beans, corn relish, pickled beets, whole beets, Harvard beets, carrots, lima beans, mixed vegetables, sauerkraut, succotash, red cabbage Vegetable juice
Worcestershire sauce
Meat
Italian sausage, mild and hot
Over the Counter Products
Extra Strength Pain Reliever gel tabs (acetominophen)
Glucose tabs
Please note the following caveats from some of our suppliers: Our salad dressing supplier said they could not 100% guarantee their vinegar sources, so if you have been told by your doctor to avoid distilled vinegars with a possible wheat base you should not use those items. The supplier for our Super G capers and green olives with pimento says the vinegar is distilled three times, but can be from a wheat source. This is also true for our salsa supplier. In a distilled vinegar there is not likely to be any gluten, but some physicians may still want you to avoid it. Our maraschino cherry supplier also said they cannot guarantee that the source for their flavorings won't change.
The following products have also been checked and contain gluten or could be contaminated with gluten: bagged cheddar cheese popcorn, bulk dried fruits, catsup and chili sauce, cheese puffs and baked cheese crunchies, coconut macaroons, corn chips (ribbon and BBQ flavored), corn flakes and crispy rice and bite size rice (chex) cereal, frozen fries (crispy, curly and seasoned), grated Parmesan cheese, grated fat free Parmesan and grated Romano blend, fudge bars, chocolate ice cream cups, Neopolitan ice cream brick, mayonnaise, potato chips (all flavors), salad dressing type mayonnaise, soups (vegetable with beef and beef broth), tortilla chips (all flavors) and vanilla extract. Also, vitamin A acetate, vitamin E acetate, beta- carotene and vitamin D have a starch carrier (soft gels and liquids do not use starch carriers).
If there are any other products for which you need more information please let us know.
Thanks, again, for contacting us. We appreciate hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Janet E. Tenney MS, RD
Manager of Nutrition Programs
Ref: 122222
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