When walking down the aisles of higher quality grocery stores these days, you may now come across a number of tags promoting products as gluten-free. What does this mean? Is this like fat or carbs -- should you be minimizing your consumption of gluten for some reason? Well no, not necessarily, unless you specifically have a condition that makes you sensitive to it.So What Is Gluten?While people often refer to gluten as a protein, it actually represents a component of proteins called peptides.
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