Yeast-Free Diets - Is It Best To Avoid Gluten As Well?

By Matt Bournston

Have you recently started on a yeast-free diet? Or maybe you are thinking of starting on a yeast-free diet. Whichever applies to you, you may be also wondering about gluten, as many people need to follow a gluten-free diet as well. But does avoiding yeast also have to mean avoiding gluten?

Well, strictly speaking, the two food intolerances are not the same thing. People can be intolerant to one but to intolerant to the other. Also, a food can contain gluten without containing yeast. For example, whole-wheat pasta is made from wheat which contains gluten, but it does not contain the yeast that bread has that makes it rise.

But the thing is, many foods that you find in health food shops that are gluten free are also yeast free. This is because health food companies want to be able to sell their special foods to as many people as they can, so by making them free from common allergens, many people with food intolerances can eat them. Also, for me personally, I find that I react worse when I eat foods that contain both yeast and gluten than when I eat food that just contains one of them.

Also, in addition to this, if your body is sensitive to yeast then there is also a chance that it may be sensitive to gluten as well, so to be safe if may be best to just look for foods and recipes that exclude them both. This is quite easy to do, once you get yourself into the mind set of buying special "free-from" foods in health food shops.

And the great news is: there are many gluten and yeast free breads available in health food shops these days. And if you're not quite happy with those, you can always make your own at home, using special yeast free bread recipes. - 17268

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There are still many delicious, tasty foods that a person can eat once you have stopped eating yeast. Eating a yeast free diet is actually a lot easier than you might think. For FREE help with living on a yeast free diet, visit Yeast Free Diets