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Beware "Morally Superior" Food

One thing you learn when living with celiac disease and are forced to shell out the additional funds for the less tasty gluten-free versions of foods, is that the packaging of several gluten-free foods also like to broadcast their "moral superiority" with a lot of buzzwords and catch phrases. You can pretty much count on seeing "organic". "Nut free" or "dairy free" don't quite fall into this category, since they address other dietary allergies, but it does often seem that the more things of which the food is "free", the more likely it will also be fairly "taste-free". I have learned to be especially on guard whenever a food is advertised as being "vegan". If the packaging tells about the family members that own the company or gives a short biography of the free trade farmer who harvests the grains for the resulting product, but doesn't say anything about the taste of the product, there is usually a reason. ...