Rudi's GF plain tortillas

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Rudi's GF plain tortillas

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Has anyone tried these? I know one of the ingredients is guar gum.....my EnteroLab results (2013) indicated that Fecal Anti-soy IgA was in the normal range, but I am trying to "cut back" on soy all the same.

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Here are the ingredients:

whole grain flours (sorghum, brown rice, corn, amaranth, quinoa, millet, teff)
corn starch
tapioca flour
rice flour
water
canola oil (non-GMO, expeller pressed)
xanthan gum
evaporated cane juice (cane sugar)
cultured dextrose and maltodextrin
salt
guar gum
baking powder (monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch)
malic acid
active dry yeast
apple cider vinegar
(Produced in facility that also uses soy.)

I know the soy would keep some from using....what about other ingredients....would you use?

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Any other brand tortilla or bread that you can eat (and doesn't taste like cardboard)?
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terre for some the tapioca flour can be an issue...
and too much processed flour in early stages of healing affect many.

do you have time to make items? i used to make savoury muffins (using some of the home made bone broth)
there are quite a few recipes on the net and on this site in the dees kitchen area for flat bread options that would be friendlier to your gut..
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Gabes, I've been reading those two posts and will need to try some of the things mentioned....they sound great.

I was going to get ingredients to make a recipe I found called: Gluten Free Vegan Apple Crisp. It does call for "gluten free flour blend" made up of brown rice flour, potato starch, white rice flour and tapioca flour.....so I guess I'll take that off my list for now.

I guess simple is best for now. Thanks for all of the info!

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it is easy to make your own safe blend.. coconut flour is much better than tapioca flour....
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The person posting this recipe said she uses it in place of "all purpose flour" for most recipes.

Do you mind sharing yours? I need to go back to the muffin post as I was seeing where there were multiple blends.

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Terre,

The tortillas you described contain so many ingredients that most of us would react to at least 1 or 2 of those ingredients. I counted at least 18 different ingredients — that's way too many for someone who has food sensitivities. And besides what Gabes mentioned about the flours, some of those flours (such as sorghum, quinoa, and especially millet), carry a known risk of cross-contamination, according to spot checks made on products sampled from grocery store shelves. Any time you get that many GF flours in one recipe, the odds of cross-contamination become significant, because of the multiple opportunities.

If you can tolerate corn, you would be much better off with plain corn tortillas. Many brands are marked GF, and they contain only a few ingredients. I stopped eating bread roughly 10 years ago. I use only corn tortillas as a replacement. I tried rice tortillas years ago, and wasn't impressed.

Tortillas taste better if they are either steamed or partially "fried" in a little bacon grease or some other safe oil.

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Thanks for the information Tex.

According to EnteroLab, I can have corn, so that's the tortillas I will use - thanks for the tip on the oil/bacon grease. I was hoping for bread that I could toast and put almond butter on at breakfast.

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Some members have great success baking their own GF bread, but it's much easier to do with a breadmaker designed for GF flours.

I smear almond or cashew butter on a frozen banana as sort of an after-breakfast "desert"

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