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Gluten is a concern for many people. Unfortunately, the FDA's standard for a gluten free claim on a food label was not very well thought out.
One problem was basing the standard in "parts per million" rather than "gluten per serving." For example, the weight of serving of two slices of bread is 52 grams. A serving of another food might be 5 grams. If both foods contained the same ppm of gluten, the serving of bread would result in more than 10 times more gluten, even though both were equal in ppm. Without knowing the actual amount of #gluten per serving, a ppm standard is essentially meaningless.
The FDA requires that a product must be less than 20 ppm to be labeled as "gluten free." Since nearly all foods contain trace amounts of gluten, the FDA's standard is just slightly above the "background" level of gluten in the environment. Even so, Pines #wheatgass is #glutenfree by FDA standards, and we test each batch to make sure it is below the 20 ppm standard. As you can see in the photo, wheatgrass is a completely different food than the wheat grain. When grown correctly, wheatgrass is a #vegetable, not a grain, and is gluten free.
Here's some math that puts the 20 ppm standard into perspective. The gluten level of most bread is 100,000 ppm (10%). A wheat bread sandwich contains 5.2 grams of gluten (5,200 mg.) Pines Wheat Grass is always less than 20 ppm gluten, but if it contained 20 ppm, and you ate the recommended 3.5 gram serving, you would consume 0.00007 grams of gluten (0.07 mg). Divide the 5,200 mg. by 0.07 to learn that a sandwich contains 74,285 times more gluten than a serving Pines Wheat Grass. Put another way, you would have to consume more than 928 bottles of our 10 Ounce Pines Wheat Grass powder or swallow 520,000 Pines Wheat Grass tablets at one time to equal the gluten in an average #wheat bread sandwich.
Pines Website: www.wheatgrass.com/
Pines Twitter: twitter.com/PinesWheatGrass
Pines Instagram: instagram.com/wheatgrass_people/
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The WheatGrass Girl's Twitter: twitter.com/WheatGrass76
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Gluten is a concern for many people. Unfortunately, the FDA's standard for a gluten free claim on a food label was not very well thought out.
One problem was basing the standard in "parts per million" rather than "gluten per serving." For example, the weight of serving of two slices of bread is 52 grams. A serving of another food might be 5 grams. If both foods contained the same ppm of gluten, the serving of bread would result in more than 10 times more gluten, even though both were equal in ppm. Without knowing the actual amount of #gluten per serving, a ppm standard is essentially meaningless.
The FDA requires that a product must be less than 20 ppm to be labeled as "gluten free." Since nearly all foods contain trace amounts of gluten, the FDA's standard is just slightly above the "background" level of gluten in the environment. Even so, Pines #wheatgass is #glutenfree by FDA standards, and we test each batch to make sure it is below the 20 ppm standard. As you can see in the photo, wheatgrass is a completely different food than the wheat grain. When grown correctly, wheatgrass is a #vegetable, not a grain, and is gluten free.
Here's some math that puts the 20 ppm standard into perspective. The gluten level of most bread is 100,000 ppm (10%). A wheat bread sandwich contains 5.2 grams of gluten (5,200 mg.) Pines Wheat Grass is always less than 20 ppm gluten, but if it contained 20 ppm, and you ate the recommended 3.5 gram serving, you would consume 0.00007 grams of gluten (0.07 mg). Divide the 5,200 mg. by 0.07 to learn that a sandwich contains 74,285 times more gluten than a serving Pines Wheat Grass. Put another way, you would have to consume more than 928 bottles of our 10 Ounce Pines Wheat Grass powder or swallow 520,000 Pines Wheat Grass tablets at one time to equal the gluten in an average #wheat bread sandwich.
Pines Website: www.wheatgrass.com/
Pines Twitter: twitter.com/PinesWheatGrass
Pines Instagram: instagram.com/wheatgrass_people/
Pines Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/13449270@N03/collections/
Pines Tumblr: pineswheatgrass.tumblr.com/
The WheatGrass Girl's Twitter: twitter.com/WheatGrass76
More tags: #antioxidants #vegan #MightyGreens #GreenDuo #marathon #runners #biking #cycling #triathlon #bodybuilding #diet #glutenfreediet #sugarfree #paleo #vegetarian #endurance #stamina #recovery #spartanrace #OCR #MMA #NitricOxide #Kosher #raw #organic