Wheat flours generally contain gluten. However, many substitutes may contain the word "wheat" as part of the name of the product. This may lead the presence of wheat flour when doing an internet search. One should very carefully read the composition of the flour.
The ingredients displayed in this view may say "wheat flour" but if you click through to the recipes themselves, they don't actually contain wheat flour.
We have a complex system that parses ingredients and sometimes a synonym for the ingredient may be displayed instead - for instance, perhaps a certain recipe contains "rice flour", but the parser sees "rice" and "flour" separately. It then might display "wheat flour" because it saw that "flour" was an ingredient.
In any case, thank you for pointing this out - we are continually improving Foodista to make it better and better!
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July 5, 2011
Wheat flours generally contain gluten. However, many substitutes may contain the word "wheat" as part of the name of the product. This may lead the presence of wheat flour when doing an internet search. One should very carefully read the composition of the flour.
July 5, 2011
Hi Sheila, I'm assuming you are referring to recipes on this page:
http://www.foodista.com/searchquery=gluten-free&type=recipe&cat
The ingredients displayed in this view may say "wheat flour" but if you click through to the recipes themselves, they don't actually contain wheat flour.
We have a complex system that parses ingredients and sometimes a synonym for the ingredient may be displayed instead - for instance, perhaps a certain recipe contains "rice flour", but the parser sees "rice" and "flour" separately. It then might display "wheat flour" because it saw that "flour" was an ingredient.
In any case, thank you for pointing this out - we are continually improving Foodista to make it better and better!