How gf is meat, chicken, turkey etc ?... - Gluten Free Guerr...
How gf is meat, chicken, turkey etc ? I am talking regullar chicken, etc not gf sausages etc thanks
All meat is naturally gluten free. However if you have processed meat then there is a risk that it may have been adulterated.
e.g. the meats that appear in the barbecue section of the supermarket which are covered in sauces. The sauces usually contain gluten.
One potential issue is that supermarket chickens are routinely injected with water and other chemicals to a) make them heavier b) make them appear more juicy and c) preserve them for longer.
My wife is not a coeliac but does have an intolerance to wheat, aspartame, dairy (and maybe others). She regularly gets Irritable Bowel Syndrome after eating a normal supermarket chicken. But is fine with organic chicken or chicen portions (which are not usually injected).
Other thing to watch out for is some poultry comes "basted" and can contain butter/milk proteins.
I forgot to add the the pre-cooked chicken portions and many ham/cooked meats you find in supermarkets will often contain dextrose. This is sometimes a processed form of wheat to which sensitive coeliacs can react.
Lots of hams and salamis/chorizos also have milk in them (in fact this is more of a problem for me as most processed meats seem to have milk in one form or another in them).
Crazy really - what the hell is milk doing in meat?? 
Basic advice - eat organic meat!
Thank you for your reply, I guess organic it is then.
I'm a very sensitive coeliac and have no problem with straight raw meat of any kind from anywhere. There are far more chemicals being used in all the other GF food that any being injected into chickens etc are not going to make any difference at all. As a farmers wife I can tell you that in todays farming that there is very little difference to the chemicals being used in 'normal' farming in comparison to 'organic' I woud say..don't waste your money on organic just don't buy the cheapest meat on the market.
It's not what's happening on the farm, it is what's being pumped in at the food processing factories. If we eat chicken we don't really want vast amounts of wheat based watery dextrose pumped into it just to increase the weight.
I have bought cooked chicken before that contains gluton. It was the more expensive one in a packet . I think it was Tescos . There was all kinds in it .
thank you for your answers folks...
