# Allergen-free bread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128 "2020-02-18T21:53:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/21 "2020-02-19T21:08:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Honestly, it’s a whole lot easier just to avoid eating bread, period, for the short time of the diet, than to go to these lengths to find a substitute. The wheat elimination phase of the diet will be at least 16 weeks (wheat is the last allergen to be reintroduced). 6 weeks eliminate everything, then add back allergens at 2-4 week intervals with endoscopy after each stage. Plus there is a non-zero possibility that wheat is the culprit and eliminating wheat will be a permanent thing. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/22 "2020-02-19T21:23:26Z")
16 weeks sounds like a long time, but as there’s no substitute that’s going to taste much like bread anyway except for straight rye, she might want to consider going without. I dropped all breads from my diet for a lot longer than that. I have had no-wheat rye loaves from farmers markets. Extremely dense, made of rye and whole seeds. Delicious, but not suitable for sandwiches as it is so flat and dense. I don’t believe it had added wheat gluten. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/23 "2020-02-19T21:26:47Z")
Whether you’re still allowed gluten or not, a wheat, egg, dairy-free diet pretty much means any bread you are allowed to eat will be disappointing. I only need to avoid wheat and I’ve found it’s just easier to swear off bread completely rather than learn to like the significantly inferior alternatives. The closest thing to bread I eat now is a corn tortilla. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/24 "2020-02-19T21:34:02Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Note that triticale is a wheat-rye cross. Does everybody know about this wheat but me[?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708480/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_trv_4) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/25 "2020-02-20T01:55:56Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Does everybody know about this wheat but me[?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708480/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_trv_4) I learned of it back in the 1960’s at the same time I learned about quadrotriticale. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/26 "2020-02-20T02:11:37Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Honestly, it’s a whole lot easier just to avoid eating bread, period, for the short time of the diet, than to go to these lengths to find a substitute. I think this is probably the best answer. I’ve been recently diagnosed with celiac dermatitis and now I must avoid all gluten. For a while I tried things like gluten-free breads and pastas but found them very unpalatable. So I’ve just resigned myself to not eating those things anymore. ☹ Most non-wheat products are going to be targeting gluten-free people, so it’s going to be very difficult to find stuff like no-wheat-but-all-rye breads and the like. There just isn’t enough market for it, given that the gluten-free market as a whole is pretty tiny by itself. So my recommendation is: just forget about breads, pasta, and baked goods and focus on rice, corn, and potatoes if you want starches. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128/27 "2020-02-20T19:08:01Z")
Thanks all. I was hoping for some magical barley/rye recipe that would produce a decent bread for sandwiches, but I guess it is not to be. Good news is most non-wheat beers appear to be OK… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergen-free-bread/848128.md?page=1)