If you have other suggestions about what I should be doing, I would welcome your input.Īs the owner of The Gracious Gourmet, I want to insure the public enjoys my products and feels confident that their quality and representations are correct. Asked my Web site programmer to remove this representation from the balsamic Four Onion Spread.Īny Balsamic Four Onion inventory I currently have in stock has been pulled and the words “Gluten Free” have been crossed out with a black Sharpie pen. Had my product brochure updated to eliminate this claim for this product.ģ. Arranged with my printer to print new labels for the Balsamic Four Onion Spread without the Gluten Free claim.Ģ. When your email came through this morning I immediately did the following:ġ. It is for this reason that I left this claim on the label. At that time I had this product tested* by a laboratory who came back and said that the product was gluten free according to the FDA guidelines. It is my serious intention that everything represented on my labels is correct. “Thank you for bringing to my attention that The Gracious Gourmet’s Balsamic Four Onion Spread is not gluten free. This is the statement she provided for this post: I contacted the manufacturer and we communicated via email and phone. Onions (yellow onion, leeks, shallots, red onion) sugar, balsamic vinegar, raisin, less than 2% of: vegetables and concentrated vegetables (carrots, celery, onion, tomato), yeast extract, salt, maltodextrin, canola oil, natural flavor, barley malt extract, dried onion, dried potato, dried garlic, spices, modified food starch, orange peel. This product was NOT tested by Gluten Free Watchdogīalsamic Four Onion Spread is labeled and advertised as gluten-free but according to the ingredients list on the product label and published online, it contains barley malt extract. Suzanne Simpson, dietitian at the Celiac Center at Columbia University recently alerted me to a product manufactured by The Gracious Gourmet that is labeled gluten-free but contains barley malt extract as an ingredient.
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