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Hi, I contacted the Jelly Belly company and they emailed me that their jelly
beans are GF - the modified food starch is potato.

    Please note everyone that french fries are complicated concoctions these
days.  The fries at the Silver Diner (at least the one we go to in Reston,
Va.) are GF - made by ConAgra.  However, there is a long list of french fry
products that even they make.  So please check french fries very carefully -
they are also often dusted with wheat.

    In fact, many broiled chickens are dusted with wheat.

    We had a problem at Whole Foods with their potato latkes one year - we
asked three people after reading the ingredients, all of whom said they
contained no wheat.  Well, they did and my daughter got sick.

    There are potato pancake mixes you can buy that do not contain wheat.

    I would love to know more about that hydrogenated vegetable oil
question - any good sources of info. on this?

    Thanks to all, I am happy to be on this network after 4 1/2 years of
frustration at all the failures after diagnosis of my daughter.

    Another comment - making toll house chocolate chip cookies with chick
pea (garbanzo bean) flour and xanthan gum (1  tsp per cup of flour, use 7/8
cup of chick pea flour in lieu of wheat flour) is wonderful.  No gritty
rice.

    Thanks,
    Sandy, Great Falls, Va.

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