Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind...
by Karellen on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:00PM
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FWIW, some recent research suggests that it's fructans, rather than gluten, which are the actual cause of gastrointestinal problems in non-coeliac gluten sensitivity[0].
However, if you're looking for a purely diet-based solution to GI problems, given that cutting gluten out of your diet will also cut out fructans, then you might as well go ahead with that. Especially as people serving you food will know what you're talking about, as opposed to going "huh?" if you start asking about their fructan-free offerings.
OTOH, if we try to deglutenate[1] foods in some way, or develop some kind of enzyme in pill form (glutase?)[1], than that's not going to help people who are actually fructan-sensitive rather than gluten-sensitive.
However, if you're looking for a purely diet-based solution to GI problems, given that cutting gluten out of your diet will also cut out fructans, then you might as well go ahead with that. Especially as people serving you food will know what you're talking about, as opposed to going "huh?" if you start asking about their fructan-free offerings.
OTOH, if we try to deglutenate[1] foods in some way, or develop some kind of enzyme in pill form (glutase?)[1], than that's not going to help people who are actually fructan-sensitive rather than gluten-sensitive.
[0] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-balanced-look-at-glute...
[1] Is this a word?
[2] cf. lactase