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The Shocking Truth about Food for Life

February 15, 2012 by KerryAnn 10 Comments

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For a long time, when I didn’t have time to make my own gluten-free bread or tortillas, I turned to Food for Life as a back-up source. It wasn’t often, but I did do it when needed.

No more.

GlutenFreeWatchdog.org recently tested two of their products that are labeled as gluten-free and both came back as containing gluten! You can read about it on the GlutenFree Watchdog Blog. Both the millet bread and the brown rice tortillas tested as containing gluten.  To see the full test results including how many hundred parts per million the test showed, you’ll need to subscribe to their website.

I am now embarking on a major freezer cooking session in order to stock my freezer with sourdough bread and corn tortillas so I no longer purchase anything from Food for Life.  I am terribly disappointed that a company that I have promoted and used since 2006 is producing tainted products. Although their sprouted corn tortillas were not tested, I no longer trust this company to show integrity after a product labeled gluten-free tested as having several hundred parts per million of gluten! 

If you are gluten-free, please consider subscribing to this site to help support independent, third-party testing so companies such as Food for Life can be brought to light and celiacs can protect themselves from unethical companies who mislabel and mislead their customers. Continued exposure to gluten has known health risks that this company is carelessly disregarding.

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Glutenfreewatchdog and if you subscribe, I receive no compensation from them.

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Filed Under: Auto-immune Diseases, Celiac disease, Food Matters, Gluten

I'm KerryAnn Foster, a crazy vibrant Jesus Freak with a heart full of hope. I'm not afraid to love on the least of these or get my hands dirty. This blog is my journey from ineffective, uptight, obese wallflower to a woman on fire for God and living the most vibrant, passionate life possible!

I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with my husband, Jeff, and our two teens. I blog about self-confidence, health and home, homeschooling and living a vibrant, wide-open Jesus-centered lifestyle. I have over seventeen years of real food, natural lifestyle and health experience. We have homeschooled our children since birth and both Jeff and I run home-based businesses. We're crazy, we know it, and we love every second of it!

Read about my journey to health through celiac disease, PCOS, food allergies, obesity, adrenal fatigue and heavy metals.

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  1. Denise says

    February 16, 2012 at 10:13 am

    That is so disappointing! I would never have thought that they’d be one of the companies you’d mentioned whose products had gluten in them.

    I think it’s probably confusing (misleading?) to a lot of people, but their sprouted corn tortillas aren’t gluten-free. The corn is sprouted in filtered water with barley malt. I don’t think that’s listed on the label, so many people, myself included, would look at that label and think that it’s a safe product!

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  2. pamela says

    February 17, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    Whenever I see gluten-free on a label or menu, I can’t help being suspicious. The first things that goes through my head is the myriad of ways that could go wrong, often with the best of intentions. CTF sounds helpful. I’ll check it out.

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  3. Becki says

    February 17, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    Ah man, I just bought two packages this week, and now I know why my son’s behavior has been so bad! Thank you for getting the info out!!!

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  4. Luna says

    February 17, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Oh, holy crap. This is a disaster. My 6 year old has celiac disease and autism. These tortillas are the only thing he eats some days. We spend at least $100/month on them, just for him. All 5 of us have celiac disease, and we all eat the tortillas occasionally. This SUCKS. My boy is going to be a mess without his “wraps”. CRAP. I sure hope it was a one time problem with a supplier.
    Luna recently posted..Autism Funding Bureaucracy Strikes Again

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    • KerryAnn Foster says

      February 17, 2012 at 10:50 pm

      Luna, is he eating the corn or the flour tortillas? I’ve got a recipe to make the corn ones here- https://www.onevibrantmama.com/2012/02/04/man-food-homemade-tortillas-and-tortilla-chips/

      I’m still working on the flour tortillas, but I will post the recipe once it’s done.
      KerryAnn Foster recently posted..Freezer Cooking: ‘Bourbon’ Chicken

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  5. Luna says

    February 17, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Flour. He’s quite allergic to corn too.
    Luna recently posted..Autism Funding Bureaucracy Strikes Again

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    • KerryAnn Foster says

      February 18, 2012 at 8:32 pm

      Luna, I’ll make that one a priority as soon as I can get the website repaired.
      KerryAnn Foster recently posted..Freezer Cooking: ‘Bourbon’ Chicken

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  6. Chickiepea says

    February 24, 2012 at 1:18 am

    I hope they are reputable enough that they will address the public about this and fix the issue. We recently discovered the rice wraps and I was over the moon, because we avoid corn as well, and tortillas are the answer to “fast food” in my house. 🙁 Very disappointing.

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  7. Becki says

    April 18, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    I called the company to ask them about this. They said the product in question was an expired product, so they were not able to have the gluten verified or disproven.

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    • KerryAnn Foster says

      April 18, 2012 at 1:36 pm

      Becki, Gluten-Free Watchdog always tests them while in date. Their policy is that if a product tests as having more than 20ppm gluten, they will re-test it again within a year.

      I also got the blow-off when I called. The bottom line is that ALL of the Food for Life that Gluten-Free Watchdog has tested as had far more than 20ppm. And it was all of the samples, not just some of them. Until they clean up their act, vote with your dollars (and feet) and avoid the company. They will have no incentive to clean up unless they get a lot of negative press AND a drop in sales.
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