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Envirokidz crispy rice bars — ok?

6 Apr, 2007 Foods

I have been buying the peanut butter & berry for weeks, (Ok off thetacanow gfcf list) and wondered these are truly legal?

The company website says… may contain dairy

Is it OK?

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8 Comments so far »

Shane Dearmond said,

Wrote on April 8, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

If you call them you can ask them if there is any cross contamination.When I called they said there is no cross contamination butmanufactorers way of doing things change all the time. We let our sonhave them but he’s also on EnZyme Complete DPP-IV which helps breakdown gluten and casein proteins if there is any cross contamination.
Lyle Farrington said,

Wrote on April 10, 2007 @ 10:49 am

Not for us. Between the chances of cross-contamination from dairy and soy,the risk was just too much. Maybe your child can tolerate them with enzymes?
Ali Hunsberger said,

Wrote on April 11, 2007 @ 12:47 am

I was wondering…did you call the company? I have been puzzling overan issue with my son. I have been trying to figure out if he isintolerate of corn. I keep getting varied reactions to corn. He caneat canned corn and tortilla chips, but can’t eat Gorilla Munch orFritos. Did you find that Envirokids has a cross contaminationissue?? Please let me know as this would help me solve my puzzle andpossibly keep us from eliminating corn unneccesaarily.
Lyle Farrington said,

Wrote on April 11, 2007 @ 9:59 am

I did find there were cross-contamination problems. I suggest you stay awayfrom their products for a time and use other cereals. Barbara’s Brown RiceCrisps would be a good choice to use as cereal and as a base to make yourown cereal bars. See how he tolerates that. Then, just test it again. Thoseallergy warnings are seldom there for no reason. Making products on sharedlines with no cross-contamination is very hard. Very few companies do itsuccessfully and consistently.

We had to eliminate corn. It’s extremely hard. It means eliminating manymore products than is immediately obvious, and having to compound even themost innocent over the counter medications. I hope you don’t have to resortto that.
Ali Hunsberger said,

Wrote on April 11, 2007 @ 10:48 pm

I had been hesitant to remove corn because it would remove so many ofour choices for foods. Also because I was seeing reactions in fritos,gorilla munch but not canned corn or popcorn. This was confusing me.Knowing that the Envirokids can have a cross contamination issueexplains a lot with our differing reactions to corn. I reallyappreciate knowing that it is an issue.
Santina Winkelbauer said,

Wrote on April 13, 2007 @ 8:23 am

When you say your child can eat Fritos, do you mean the regular ones or theScoops? The reason this makes a difference is the regular-shaped ones are madeon shared equipment, whereas, at least last time I heard, the scoops are made ona dedicated line. If he can eat them but not the regular ones, this wouldindicate that it is not corn but something else that he is sensitive to that heis getting from the cross-contamination.
Ali Hunsberger said,

Wrote on April 13, 2007 @ 8:22 pm

I will have to try again with the scoops. I had been giving him theregular fritos and they were causing problems. THank you for theinfo. He loves fritos and they were so great in chili and tomatosoup instead of crackers. I hated to give them up.
Bethanie Milin said,

Wrote on April 14, 2007 @ 11:12 am

My celiac son got sick when I ate regular fritos while nursing him.They definately are cross-contaminated. The scoops are fine though.If you give him scoops and still have a problem, they you shouldcheck further with the corn issue.