If a recipe is gluten free is it wheat free?

Answer 1

Since wheat does contain gluten, you would think so. However, researchers have been developing gluten-free wheat for gluten-free diets, so there is the rare case where you can have something that is gluten free but DOES contain wheat. In the USA, this wheat would be labeled on the package.

And of course, a wheat-free recipe is not necessarily gluten-free, since there exist other sources of gluten besides wheat.