Is it safe to eat blue cheese on a gluten-free diet?
Is it safe to eat blue cheese on a gluten-free diet? Until recently blue cheese has been classified as a food to avoid on gluten-free diets. Understandably so – traditionally the milk used to make blue cheese has been, and still is, inoculated with mold spores grown on breads or cultures that contain gluten. So how can blue cheese be safe to add to your gluten-free diet? Read the evidence and you decide.Answer: Alexandria Anca, MHSc., RD, Advisor to the Canadian Celiac Association (CCA) Professional Advisory Board has written a revealing article in CCA “Celiac News” entitled Blue Cheese in the Gluten-Free Diet – A Research Update that should put to rest our perceptions that blue cheese is unsafe to eat on gluten-free diets. Other names for blue cheese include Roquefort (French,) Stilton (English,) Gorgonzola (Italian.) Blue cheese can be made from cow, sheep and goat milk. From the research analys
