Does sprouting the wheat neutralize the gluten?

IamCurious

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Joined : Jan 2010

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Posted 4/21/2011 10:13 PM (GMT 0)

I think I might be gluten intolerant. I can eat rice, corn, quinoa, millet, and my favorite hardy breakfast in the morning, oatmeal, with no problems. But eat wheat, barley, or rye then BLAM! And I don’t have to wait long. The other day I was coaxed into a reuben sandwich for lunch and experienced bloody diarrhea that evening.

It took me a while to recognize gluten intolerance because I tested negative for it. Another reason is that my girlfriend regularly makes sandwiches with Ezekiel sprouted grain bread (with wheat) and it gives me no problems for some reason. Apparently sprouting the wheat does something. I still make toast with it in the morning with no problems.

Is this a fluke or does sprouting the grain neutralize the gluten?

Deb25

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Joined : Apr 2009

Posts : 319

Posted 4/23/2011 10:27 AM (GMT 0)

Ezekiel bread is not gluten free...stay away from it. Sprouted wheat is wheat all the same. Just because it seems you are not reacting to it doesn't mean it isn't causing some damage any ways. The first couple of years when I went gluten free, I ate some barley by accident, which didn't seem to cause symptoms..I don't think I could eat it now without issues, but then it didn't seem to bother me. I would never knowingly eat it though.

At the time, Quaker had Cracker Jack rice cakes, which I loved. However, they had 2 different types of Cracker JAck rice cakes which I didn't know. The 2nd type contained gluten.

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