Does miracle whip light contain gluten?

Answer 1

Gluten is a protein that can cause extreme symptoms and sometimes severe medical complications in people with Celiac (aka Coeliac) Disease and those with other sensitivities to gluten. Always check the product label before using new products if your health care professional or dietician has recommended avoidance of this protein in your diet. If one of the ingredients listed on the label is wheat, rye, or barley, or flours made from them and other processed forms of these grains, you can assume that there is gluten present since these grains are the most common sources in the US diet for glutens.

Whole oats have a lower gluten content than wheat, so some people are able to eat them, if whole and from a known source that does not also process other higher gluten content grains. Unless your dietician or health care professional has said it is okay to use these, then oats should also be avoided since they do have some gluten content.

Other common ingredients that contain gluten are: Spelt, Kamut, and Farina and non-distilled vinegars. However, there are still other ingredients and sources containing gluten that may or may not be printed on the label. The best method to be sure to avoid foods containing glutens is to contact the manufacturer and ask if that product could have gluten or traces of gluten. Some products are labeled to warn about gluten content, but many aren't.

Even though there may not be wheat, rye, or barley ingredients in a product, traces of gluten large enough to produce problems can still be present. For example, in oat meal products even for patients who are allowed to eat them, there may be other higher content gluten residue in the product. The box of plain rolled oats will most likely not list the other grains or gluten as ingredients. Common sense would lead you to believe there would not be any wheat, rye, or barley in a box of otherwise unprocessed whole rolled oats. However, if the mill or packaging plant where the oats were rolled or boxed or otherwise handled also works with products containing wheat, rye, barley or other high gluten products, there can be enough gluten residue passed to the oats to cause problems in some people, especially toddlers and younger children.

The contact information for manufacturer questions is usually on the product label. Using that toll free phone number or visiting the customer service web site should get you to a person who can give you the definitive answer for that specific product.

A toll free number for Kraft product questions is : 1-877-535-5666. Kraft is the manufacturer of Miracle Whip Light.

To get to the specific gluten information at the Kraft web page, first use the link at the links section below. Once at that site, you can search for "gluten" in the search box.

The following excerpt is among the information Kraft gives on their web pages about gluten in Kraft products:

" ...it has been a long standing policy for all Kraft and Nabisco products to list ingredients that contain gluten on the ingredient statement. These items will be listed using commonly known terms such as Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye. For other ingredients that contain gluten, the grain source will be declared in parenthesis after the ingredient name. For example, if the ingredient "natural flavor" contains a gluten source, the label would read: natural flavor (contains rye). Other ingredients that contain gluten are: Triticale, Spelt, Kamut, Mir or Farina (also known as Far or Farro)."

Kraft further explains that the vinegars they use in their products are distilled and therefore gluten has been removed through that process.

If you have more questions about gluten in your diet, consult your doctor or a registered dietician.

The link section below also contains a link to additional information from Kraft about gluten free foods.

Answer 2

Gluten is a protein that can cause extreme symptoms and sometimes severe medical complications in people with Celiac (aka Coeliac) Disease and those with other sensitivities to gluten. Always check the product label before using new products if your health care professional or dietician has recommended avoidance of this protein in your diet. If one of the ingredients listed on the label is wheat, rye, or barley, or flours made from them and other processed forms of these grains, you can assume that there is gluten present since these grains are the most common sources in the US diet for glutens.

Whole oats have a lower gluten content than wheat, so some people are able to eat them, if whole and from a known source that does not also process other higher gluten content grains. Unless your dietician or health care professional has said it is okay to use these, then oats should also be avoided since they do have some gluten content.

Other common ingredients that contain gluten are: Spelt, Kamut, and Farina and non-distilled vinegars. However, there are still other ingredients and sources containing gluten that may or may not be printed on the label. The best method to be sure to avoid foods containing glutens is to contact the manufacturer and ask if that product could have gluten or traces of gluten. Some products are labeled to warn about gluten content, but many aren't.

Even though there may not be wheat, rye, or barley ingredients in a product, traces of gluten large enough to produce problems can still be present. For example, in oat meal products even for patients who are allowed to eat them, there may be other higher content gluten residue in the product. The box of plain rolled oats will most likely not list the other grains or gluten as ingredients. Common sense would lead you to believe there would not be any wheat, rye, or barley in a box of otherwise unprocessed whole rolled oats. However, if the mill or packaging plant where the oats were rolled or boxed or otherwise handled also works with products containing wheat, rye, barley or other high gluten products, there can be enough gluten residue passed to the oats to cause problems in some people, especially toddlers and younger children.

The contact information for manufacturer questions is usually on the product label. Using that toll free phone number or visiting the customer service web site should get you to a person who can give you the definitive answer for that specific product.

A toll free number for Kraft product questions is : 1-877-535-5666. Kraft is the manufacturer of Miracle Whip Light.

To get to the specific gluten information at the Kraft web page, first use the link at the links section below. Once at that site, you can search for "gluten" in the search box.

The following excerpt is among the information Kraft gives on their web pages about gluten in Kraft products:

" ...it has been a long standing policy for all Kraft and Nabisco products to list ingredients that contain gluten on the ingredient statement. These items will be listed using commonly known terms such as Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye. For other ingredients that contain gluten, the grain source will be declared in parenthesis after the ingredient name. For example, if the ingredient "natural flavor" contains a gluten source, the label would read: natural flavor (contains rye). Other ingredients that contain gluten are: Triticale, Spelt, Kamut, Mir or Farina (also known as Far or Farro)."

Kraft further explains that the vinegars they use in their products are distilled and therefore gluten has been removed through that process.

If you have more questions about gluten in your diet, consult your doctor or a registered dietician.

The link section below also contains a link to additional information from Kraft about gluten free foods.