Bread: Lifestyle Healthcare Gluten-Free Bread Roll

On Friday I was able to try the Lifestyle Healthcare Gluten-Free bread roll on my British Airways return flight to the USA. Since a previous flight with a gluten-free meal where I was given a muffin made out of flour I always double check the ingredients.

This product's ingredients includes:
gluten-free wheat starch (contains less than 0.3g per 100g), maize starch, whey powder, sugar, palm oil, yeast, sugar beet, raisin juice, salt, thickener: guar gum, soya flour, emulsifier: soya lecithin, presevative: calcium propionate.

My celiac radar was on high alert considering the first ingredient, but I kept coming back to the manufacturer's name and their tag line of "The Gluten-Free Bakers." I decided in the interest of science I'd sacrifice myself and try this out.

The bread roll looked like someone took a normal loaf of bread and shrank it to a tenth of the normal size.

It tasted ok, a bit dry, but edible especially considering this was a meal on an airplane. The product is dense, adding butter helped.

Of course I'm a bit concerned about the wheat starch, but Celiac.com has an article about it. I had no adverse symptoms.

If you're flying on British Airways this is a nice addition to their gluten-free meal, but it won't become a daily staple of my diet.