A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food industry

Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by VLM on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:35PM (#8512552)

I hope the bubble bursts, the sooner the better. And I have a son with medically diagnosed coeliac disease. The substitutes are overpriced and I assure you from experience they are usually fairly disgusting in either taste, texture, odor, or the ingredient list. The best part of his diagnosis was the whole family basically stopped eating junk food. Awesome health benefits from that. So.. no empty calories, no problem!

Stores are already full of gluten free products. I made a tasty homemade beef vegetable stew yesterday in the slow cooker with beef and carrots and potatoes and celery and thats about it (well, some spices, some salt, water, etc). This is what real gluten free substitutes look like. It tasted awesome. This is the kind of GF substitute I've come to expect, not a GF hot pocket or a GF package of oreos.

There's a big business around convincing people they have to buy substitutes so they can keep stuffing their faces with (now gluten free!) twinkies until they die of diabetes at 500 pounds. I'm totally not interested in that kind of substitute. If their processed food business model loses money or wastes executive bonus money on R+D or even better, outright dies out, I'm not going to shed any crocodile tears in my homemade beef stew.

You can see the propaganda way of steering thought by careful word choice:

"Sales of alternatives to meat have flattened"

They've flattened because they're disgusting soy based hyper processed plastic weirdness pumped out of a chemical plant that isn't really fit for human consumption. Not because nobody eats salads anymore.

The whole article is like describing modern online music stores as selling "vinyl free product, even though most buyers don't medically need vinyl free music". Its people complaining the world has passed their business model by. If people aren't buying your toxic cellophane wrapped people-fattener products anymore, instead of trying even weirder chemical plant processing or stealth marketing with complimentary copy, just sell me some cheap lettuce and stop complaining.

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Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by srj on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:02PM (#8513079)

Presumably your son would like to eat out occasionally? Or not be relegated to just the healthy options you want him to eat?

Just because there are GF Oreo's doesn't mean you have to eat them. And to counter your observation, in my experience GF food generally tastes alright. My partner is allergic. It's "overpriced" (market priced, really) because it's lower volume and depending on the GF substitute it may be more difficult to produce.

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