<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> On Jun 19, 1996 22:24:56, 'MARJORIE ROGERS <[log in to unmask]>' wrote: >So all of you with a chemistry background, is this really possible if you >begin with wheat as one of the ingredients? My feeling is that it is >NOT gluten free. Here's some more products with gluten at the beginning but supposedly gluten free, or gluten free enough. Would a chemist with an interest call Westbrae? Products: rice syrup and some separate rice and soy drinks. Westbrae Natural Foods (in Carson City, CA perhaps) 800-769-6455. They had told me earlier that they regard alcohol distilleded from grain to be essentialy gluten free, but that if they're asked what it's made from they will identify the starting material. A sensible disclosure possible policy if every rep is careful about it. In a Farmer's Bazaar (a chain gourmet supermarket?) I found Ener-G-Foods and Westbrae's rice syrup side by side. 16 oz with the Westbrae 50-60 cents cheaper. Westbrae admitts on the label to using barley enzymes but says they are "filtered" out. Granted the enzymes are much larger than gliadin but I'm not so sure about the gluten. They claim the product is gluten free though I don't remember the exact wording. I can't check the wording as they sold out and haven't replaced yet.. They have a Westsoy beverage in three forms. The "original" is described as having "rice syrup converted with a purified barley enzyme". Filtering before fermenting removes the chance of converted smaller molecules getting through. The product list of 3/95 I got is ambiguous as to a separate rice syrup product, only that they have drinks using one of three forms of ezymes for the fermentation of rice or soy. Kemp Randolph Long Island