<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
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
* Send administrative questions to mailto:[log in to unmask] *
Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC