| Avoiding Corn
Tish Richardson PhD has kindly provided this extract from her book
The
Tolerant Cook - The Allergy and Food Intolerance Cookbook. Tish's
book provides additional information on how to avoid corn.
(See end of article for link to book.)
'Corn' in the book specifically refers to any maize-based or
-derived product and not wheat starch. Confusingly,
wheat starch can be labelled as 'cornstarch' on some products but
under the requirements of the Food Standards Code wheat-derived
cornstarch should now be labelled accordingly.
Avoid
All corn and corn-derived foods, including products with any of
the following labelled ingredients (*unless suitable origin
specified).
- caramel, caramel colour or flavour*;
- corn, baby corn, corn cuts, creamed corn, kernels;
- corn alcohol, extract or oil;
- corn sugars, syrup or syrup solids, or sweeteners;
- cornflour, cornstarch or starch (unless specifically
labelled as wheat-derived);
- cornmeal;
- dextrose, dextrin or dextrates*;
- edible starch*;
- fructose or high fructose corn syrup;
- flavour, or natural flavour or flavouring*;
- glucono delta-lactone;
- glucose or glucose syrup*;
- golden syrup (unless labelled from cane sugar);
- grits;
- hominy;
- hydrolysed corn, corn or vegetable* protein;
- icing or confectioner's sugar (unless labelled 'pure';
- lecithin*;
- invert sugar or syrup;
- maize, maize meal or thickener;
- malt or malt syrup;
- maltodextrin*;
- modified corn, starch or food starch*;
- monosodium glutamate*;
- polenta;
- popcorn;
- pregelatinised starch*;
- thickener*;
- treacle (unless specified as pure molasses);
- unmodified starch*;
- vegetable gum, starch, shortenings or other derivative*;
- vanilla extract or vanillin (check corn syrup free);
- xanthan gum;
- zein.
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