Gluten-free food database: the nutritional quality and cost of packaged gluten-free foods.

ABSTRACT: Notwithstanding a growth in popularity and consumption of gluten-free (GF) food products, there is a lack of substantiated analysis of the nutritional quality compared with their gluten-containing counterparts. To put GF foods into proper perspective both for those who need it (patients with celiac disease) and for those who do not, we provide contemporary data about cost and nutritional quality of GF food products. The objective of this study is to develop a food composition database for seven discretionary food categories of packaged GF products. Nutrient composition, nutritional information and cost of foods from 63 GF and 126 gluten-containing counterparts were systematically obtained from 12 different Austrian supermarkets. The nutrition composition (macro and micronutrients) was anal

SUBMITTER: Missbach B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627916 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature