Gluten-Free Meals and Deserts — Click on Photo for Gluten-Free Recipes
(Photo: Margarita Persico)
By Margarita Persico
In San Jose, Costa Rica, catering to celiac or those with gluten intolerance was unusual just a few years ago. Now gluten-free friendly restaurants are sprouting all over thanks to more awass on the disease and to the efforts that individuals and organizations such as APPCEL (Asociación Pro Personas con la Enfermedad Celiaca) have done to spread the word. It is estimated that two percent of the Costa Rican population has been diagnosed with celiac disease, a genetic illness with an unusual medicine: abstinence from gluten, a protein found in barley, rye and wheat, and all products and grains that have been mixed with gluten or cross contaminated with gluten such as oats.
Read more about it at:
TheHealthyDish.com/gluten-free-san-jose-costa-rica/#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_tot=1&at_ab=per-4&at_pos=0
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GLUTEN-FREE PRODUCTS • FOODS • RESTAURANTS
around Costa Rica?
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