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Spicethrower t1_iw9uvs7 wrote

Reply to comment by mikeyHustle in Gotta love Giant Eagle. What a sale.... by kniki217

Surely they don't make donuts in the cider press machinery.

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mikeyHustle t1_iwa0n4e wrote

The entire gluten-free industry labels products like this. It's so people with celiac disease know for sure. When there's no danger of cross-contam (because, no, they don't make donuts there), they label it. And when your oats (which grow without gluten) are processed on a cross-contam machine, they don't label GF.

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Spicethrower t1_iwa2iqe wrote

Of course they do. What I'm saying is common sense. Given celiac disease which is dangerous you would think that food and beverage producers would know better than to cross contaminate machinery. This isn't about oats or flour. Can you tell me why there would be a chance that gluten got into apple cider? I worked in a restaurant. Different equipment for gluten vs gluten free.

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mikeyHustle t1_iwa2s6y wrote

People don't usually trust "common sense" when it comes to labels and their health or lifestyle. A pack of spaghetti that's just made of durum semolina is still gonna be labeled Vegan, just in case. That's how it is, for peace of mind.

EDIT: And part of it is because large corporations or shared facilities often share equipment to make wildly different things. It is indeed possible that apples run across a gluten-dusted conveyor belt, somewhere.

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