{"id":3202,"date":"2019-01-15T06:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T04:48:19","slug":"sorghum_celiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/sorghum_celiac\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorghum safe for people with Celiac disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking me whether those of us with Celiac Disease can eat sorghum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17719701\">A study published in Clinical Nutrition from Edinburgh, Scotland in 2007<\/a> indicates that we can. Here&#8217;s what researchers from that study wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorghum protein digests did not elicit any morphometric or immunomediated alteration of duodenal explants from celiac patients. Patients fed daily for 5 days with sorghum-derived food product did not experience gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal symptoms and the level of anti-transglutaminase antibodies was unmodified at the end of the 5-days challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23432128\">Another study that appeared in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2013<\/a>\u00a0proved through genetic evidence that the plant does not contain gluten. Here&#8217;s what researchers wrote in the summary to that study:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aqueous\/alcohol-soluble prolamins (kafirins) from different sorghum varieties, including pure lines and hybrids, were evaluated by SDS-PAGE and HPLC analyses as well as an established enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on the R5 antibody. These analyses provide molecular evidence for the absence of toxic gliadin-like peptides in sorghum, confirming that sorghum can be definitively considered safe for consumption by people with celiac disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So yes, we can eat sorghum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking me whether those of us with Celiac Disease can eat sorghum. A study published in Clinical Nutrition from Edinburgh, Scotland in 2007 indicates that we can. Here&#8217;s what researchers from that study wrote: Sorghum protein digests did not elicit any morphometric or immunomediated alteration of duodenal explants from celiac patients. 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