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Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:35:11 -0400
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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

Lisa Sage asked about caramel color. Well it depends, and this explains
why. (Pepsi and Coke have said theirs is GF.) Don.

Excepts from Ener-G Food's "Detailed Ingredients Listing":

Caramel Color
  The problem with caramel color is it may or may not contain gluten
  depending on how it is manufactured.  In the U.S.A. caramel color must
  conform with the FDA standard of identity from 21CFR CH.1.  This statute
  says- The color additive caramel is the dark-brown liquid or solid material
  resulting from the carefully controlled heat treatment of the following
food-
  grade carbohydrates:
        Dextrose (corn sugar)
        Invert sugar
        Lactose (milk sugar)
        Malt syrup (usually from barley malt)
        Molasses (from cane)
        Starch Hydrolysates and fractions thereof (can include wheat)
        Sucrose (cane or beet)
  (Also acids, alkalis and salts are listed which may be employed to assist
  caramelization)

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