Moms Across America recently tested 46 samples of gluten-free foods, including bread, pasta, crackers, snacks, flour, dessert mixes, and chips for glyphosate, 236 pesticides, minerals, and gluten.
The Gluten-Free foods market is projected to be valued at 14 billion U.S. dollars by 2032, more than double the 2022 market value. In the United States, 12% of men and 9% of women report eating gluten-free. Around the world, 660 million people avoid gluten. Most have gluten intolerances, but some have Celiac disease, a serious life-threatening condition, and must avoid gluten entirely.
Some brands in this booming market, however, are not as ‘gluten-free’ or healthy as many people may be led to believe and Moms Across America’s latest testing project has uncovered some unsavory facts:
- 30% of the products tested contained higher levels of glyphosate than the default Maximum Residue Levels for glyphosate in the EU of 10 parts per billion (ppb).
- 100% of products, including organic products, had other detectable pesticides present. Out of 236 pesticides tested, 35 additional pesticides were detected in gluten-free foods with 2,4-D being the most common.
- About 20% of “gluten-free” products had detectable gluten. That’s 9 products out of 46.
The highest level of glyphosate in the “gluten-free” food tested was in Banza Chickpea pasta. The level of 2837.19 ppb was the highest amount of glyphosate in human food the third-party lab that tested the samples had ever recorded.
Before this testing was released, Banza stated in an email to a concerned consumer regarding glyphosate levels, “We work very closely with our suppliers to monitor for it.”
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Moms Across America Director, Zen Honeycutt, stated; “We had hoped to find that gluten-free foods that were also organic would be free of glyphosate and pesticides. They were not. The prevalence of glyphosate and agrochemicals in our food supply, even in organic and even in foods made for people with American Disability Act (ADA) recognized disability, such as Celiac disease, is disturbing for many reasons.
“This contamination is avoidable. As the EU has done, all our policymakers need to do is disallow the spraying of glyphosate and other agrochemicals as a drying agent on crops. The result would be that 80% of our exposure to glyphosate would be eliminated from food consumption. We urge food manufacturers to join us in calling for better regulation of the food supply,” Honeycutt concluded.
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