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I just got this from Giant (a grocery store chain in the mid-Atlantic),
this is their most recent list. My understanding is that they only put
the most recent items checked on this list so if you don't find an item
on this list contact them to request they check into the item. BTW I had
asked them to check on their eggnog but she never got a callback from
the supplier and I do notice it is on the gf list so who knows about
that item. I plan on giving her a list of items I like to purchase from
them and have been told they were gf in the past but were not on this
list (ie frozen potatoes, frozen vegetables, deli potato salad & deli
cole slaw).

1-877-846-9949 ask to speak with a Nutritionist (you may still be
connected with customer service but still ask for the Nutritionist,
apparently they are in the same area but customer service doesn't answer
gf questions). They have 2 nutritionists on staff.

Betsey Carus
Baltimore, MD USA

Subject: Reply from Giant Food Ref #104131
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:40:41 -0500
From: "Consumer Affairs" <[log in to unmask]>

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 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
Cheddar cheese:  Chunk/Stick Cheese:  New York Sharp, Wisconsin Sharp
and Wisconsin white sharp and mild, regular and reduced fat;
Shredded:  Reduced fat, Cut sharp & Fancy
Cream cheese:  all types
Egg Nog
Egg substitute
Mozzarella cheese:  All shredded including reduced fat and part skim
Muenster cheese:  Chunk/Stick
Swiss Natural slices,4x4,  chunk and cubes
Pasteurized processed cheese slices & 2 lb. block (Velveeta style),
American, regular & Deluxe, cheese food and cheese spread (white and
yellow), 2% and fat free
Cottage Cheese:  nonfat, 1%, 1% no salt, large curd, pineapple
Ricotta cheese:  all varieties
Yogurt: plain

Deli and service deli department
Ham, imported (service deli)
Ham, honey, Livingston Farms (service deli)
Roast Beef, Italian (service deli)
Rotisserie chickens:  oven roasted, Italian and Lemon Pepper
Swiss cheese, domestic (service deli)
Turkey Breast, Homestyle smoked (service deli)
Turkey lite breast, Dietz & Watson (service deli)

Frozen Foods
Citrus pops
Combo cremes ice cream bars
Dreamy Tofu
Ice cream, including high includsion with candy bars, etc. all flavors,
except cookies and cream and chocolate chip cookie dough
Ice cream bars, chocolate coated
Ice cream cups, vanilla
No-sugar added fudge bars
Sherbet (all flavors)
Stir Fry Vegetables, Stir Fry Vegetables with Rice
Twin pops

Grocery Department
Applesauce
Barbecue Sauce
Chocolate chips, semi-sweet
Chocolate syrup, can and squeeze bottle
Corn Twists
Cornstarch
Cranberry juice cocktail:  all flavors and 100%
Cranberry sauce (whole & jellied)
Gelatin (regular and sugar-free)
Hot Sauce
Instant mashed potatoes
Jellies, preserves and fruit spreads
Kids fun pops
Lemon juice
Maraschino cherries
Marshmallows
Nuts:  honey roasted peanuts, party peanuts, mixed nuts, cashews, all
dry roasted peanuts, cashews and mixed nuts
Paprika
Pasta sauce:  Tomato Basil, Roasted Garlic, Four Cheese
Peanut Butter:  creamy and chunky
Peanut oil
Popcorn, Bagged butter flavored
Olives, ripe (black)
Pickle Relish, Sweet & Hot Dog
Pickles, all
Pie filling, cherry and apple
Pork and beans, vegetarian beans
Pudding mix (all flavors - regular and instant)
Raisins, Seedless (packaged)
Rice cakes, all flavors
Shortening, vegetable
Soup:  Condensed Chicken Rice, Healthy Recipe Chicken Rice
Sunflower seeds:  dry roasted and unsalted
Syrup:  cane & maple, lite pancake, pancake with butter
Taco seasoning
Tea:  Regular and Decaffeinated
Tomatoes for cooking, diced tomatoes, crushed, stewed, no-salt added
Tomato paste
Tomato sauce (regular and no-salt added)
Vegetable juice
Worcestershire sauce

Meat
Ham (shank, butt, center cut slice and portions, spiral)
Turkey, whole (frozen and fresh)

Over the Counter Products
Buffered aspirin, coated tablets
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 true for our salsa supplier as well.  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 recently 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, corn chips (ribbon and
BBQ flavored), corn flakes and crispy rice and bite size rice
(chex) cereal, grated Parmesan cheese, grated fat free Parmesan and
grated Romano blend, fudge bars, chocolate ice cream cups, ice cream
sandwiches, ice cream novelty cones, 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,
Paulette Thompson, M.S., R.D.
Food And Nutrition Coordinator

Ref:  104131

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