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wheat — What It Is, Where It Hides, and How to Avoid It
Everything you need to know about wheat — where it's found, common symptoms, hidden sources, and how Allerwise helps you avoid it.
● Allergen Details
| What is wheat?
Wheat is one of the world's most common grains, used in bread, pasta, and many processed foods. Wheat allergy and gluten intolerance are not the same thing — wheat allergy is an immune reaction to wheat proteins specifically.
| Where is wheat found?
Wheat is in bread, pasta, cereal, pastries, beer, soy sauce, and as a thickener in soups, sauces, and processed meats. It can also turn up in unexpected places like ice cream and licorice.
| Common symptoms of wheat allergy
Symptoms include hives, eczema, swelling, runny nose, and digestive upset. Severe reactions, including anaphylaxis, are possible — especially in exercise-induced wheat allergy.
| How Allerwise helps you avoid wheat
Allerwise flags wheat-based ingredients including wheat flour, semolina, durum, spelt, kamut, and starches that may be wheat-derived.
Avoid wheat with Allerwise
Identifying wheat in food products can be challenging and time-consuming. Allerwise makes this process simple and reliable.
- ▮ Instantly scan product barcodes to check for wheat
- ▲ Get immediate alerts for wheat and potential cross-contamination
- ↻ Keep a history of scanned products for future reference