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The following outline provides an alphabetical listing of the foods to avoid because of their obvious or possible content of wheat and/or yeast.
The second chart provides a listing of the most common foods that can be valid alternatives during the days in which wheat and yeast should be excluded from the diet.
Remember that it's always a good idea to start every meal with raw fruit and/or vegetables.
Foods to avoid or needing ingredients label check
Alcoholic beverages in general
Baked sweets
Béchamel
Beer and fermented beverages
Black tea
Bouillon cubes (all, vegetable as well)
Bran
Bread
Bread or slices labeled as “yeast-free”
Breading made with bread crumbs or flour
Breadsticks
Bulgur
Cakes
Canapés
Citric acid
Corn bread
Cookies
Cous cous
Crackers
Croissant
Croutons
Dried fruit
Flatbread
Foods that have been kept for long periods (fermentation began)
Fresh and aged cheese (all, including goat cheese)
Gnocchi alla romana (semolina dumplings)
Honey
Kamut
Kokkoh
Lactic ferments
Macrobiotic sauces
Manufactured ice cream
Manufactured Mayonnaise (if containing vinegar)
Miso |
Multiple grain breakfast flakes
Mushrooms (all, fresh, dried or preserved in oil)
Oatmeal bread
Pain croustillante
Pastries
Pizza
Pizzoccheri (buckwheat pasta, check the contents)
Potato Gnocchi (dumplings)
Products preserved in oil (if dried or prepared with vinegar)
Pudding
Regular, wheat and egg pasta
Rusks
Rye
Rye bread
Sardinian bread
Seitan
Semola and semolina
Soy sauce
Soy Bread
Spelt
Spelt bread
Sweet &sour preserves
Tamari
Tofu
Unleavened bread
Vegetable or cellulosic thickeners
Vinegar (wine and apple)
Vinegar preserves
Vitamin B supplements (use only products guaranteed as not yeast derived)
Whiskey
White and whole wheat flour
Whole wheat bread
Wine
Yannoh
Yeast extracts
Yogurt |
Suggested alternatives
Almond toffee
Amaranth
Amaretti (only if without flour and without yeast)
Barley (not ok for celiac sufferers)
Chocolate
Corn flakes
Corn flakes breading
Corn flour
Corn hardpans
Corn pasta
Cornmeal breading
Cracotte/extruded toasts made from rice, corn
Crepes (made with rice or buckwheat flour)
Crushed-ice drinks
Extruded crisp bread made from buckwheat, corn, quinoa, rice (check the contents)
Flaked cereals (without wheat)
Freshly squeezed juices
Fruit juices
Green tea
Herbal teas
Ice cream without added thickeners |
Karkadè
Meringue
Millet
Mousse
Muesli (without wheat)
Oil-preserved foods (only if not dried or containing vinegar)
Panna cotta
Pasta made from buckwheat, corn or rice (check the labels)
Polenta (cornmeal mush)
Potato
Potato starch
Products for celiac sufferers (sweets, bread, pasta, cereals, flours made with alternative cereals, not deglutinated)
Pudding (without flour)
Puffed cereals (without wheat, spelt, kamut, rye)
Quinoa
Rice
Rice hardpans
Sorbets
Tomato juice |
Other useful resources
» For a more detailed description of foods containing wheat and yeast, refer to the SMA Food profile on Wheat and to the SMA Food profile on Yeast.
» The Intolerances section provides an in-depth discussion on the themes related to intolerance, rotation diet, tolerance recovery and vaccines.
» If you encounter any difficulty finding tasty alternatives for your intolerance, take a look at the page on Suggested products: you can purchase these foods directly on line and have them delivered at your home in just a few days.
Suggested diets
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