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Retrograde

(10,970 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:41 PM Nov 2024

Gluten-free "gluten"

You learn something new every day. We went out for dinner with friends at a Shanghaiese restaurant, and, all of us being adventurous diners, decided to order things we hadn't encountered before. One of them was listed as "fish gluten" After a chorus of "but fish don't have gluten", we got it. Turned out to be a fish paste/egg mixture with a sauce, very tasty - and totally gluten free! You learn something new every day.

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Gluten-free "gluten" (Original Post) Retrograde Nov 2024 OP
Asian cuisine defines "gluten/glutinous" differently. sir pball Nov 2024 #1
Great Post! ProfessorGAC Nov 2024 #2

sir pball

(4,983 posts)
1. Asian cuisine defines "gluten/glutinous" differently.
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 08:11 AM
Nov 2024

Usually it's meant in the original sense of sticky, glue-like…prime example being glutinous rice, which of course is gluten-free. "Gluten" itself is Latin for "glue" and evolved to mean any sticky substance; the grain-based protein was named as such because it's the glue that holds breads together.

So in your case, it meant a goopy substance made of fish, not a fish-derived protein!

ETA: Just to make things more confusing, in Asian cookery "mock" meats and seitan are pure gluten that's been processed and seasoned to serve as non-animal protein substitutes! So an unwary consumer could think they're avoiding gluten by passing on the Fish Gluten in favor of the Mock Duck…

ProfessorGAC

(71,843 posts)
2. Great Post!
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 07:21 PM
Nov 2024

Funny thing is that only about 1 in 16 people have gluten intolerance that's 16x those with a severe issue like Celiac.
Still a lot of people, but nothing close to the nearly 40% of people admitting to avoiding gluten

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