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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Gluten Free at Ohio State University?

Ohio State has a really nice program on its website that allows you to view different allergen/dining choice options at each of its meal facilities. It does a good job of letting you know which places will only be able to serve you coffee, but it has a couple of drawbacks. At one location, it lists as gluten free a tuna salad sandwich on a croissant. Probably not a safe choice. And at another, it lists seitan entrees as gluten free. Really? Seitan? Otherwise known as "wheat-meat"? 100% wheat gluten? Yeah, that seitan. Evidently if wheat is not listed on the ingredient list, they think it is safe to label the item as gluten free. They also include on the list lots of fried things - including boneless (breaded) chicken wings. My daughter will be taking a class there this winter, but thank goodness she doesn't have any dietary restrictions. If she did? I'd have to rethink sending her to a university that can't even program a web app to properly identify croissants and breading as not gluten free. Not to mention the seitan. That should be excluded entirely. Guess I won't be having too many meals with her while she is down there. Sigh.

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