Awesome Homemade Donuts, Gluten Free Too
After dissing the Food Babe in the last post, I guess I need to recover some karma. The whole gluten-free thing has been justly skewered (e.g. here) because the vast majority of people who want to live gluten-free have no biological justification for doing so. That being said, there are people who are legitimately gluten-intolerant, like my mother-in-law.
When she visited, I knew nothing about gluten-free stuff. But I bought this home-made gluten-free donut mix and a donut baking pan from Amazon based on the reviews. Well, screw the gluten-free part, these things were awesome. And really easy to make. No vats of oil, they are just baked. Recommended even for us wheat-eaters.
Yes, but for those with Celiac disease it helps us by expanding the market.
For what it's worth, after I followed an Adkin's style diet for about 6 months, I found that eating large amounts of wheat products (bread, pasta, pizza crust,etc.) give me severe heart burn. Never had the problem before that.
There is also another sensitivity to wheat that some with IBS may have, that people are finding relief from symptoms by going to a low FODMAP diet, and a sugar associated with wheat is one of the problematic ones (gluten is a protein). Gluten-free products help those people avoid that particular sugar. And as random419 says, it helps to expand the market for people with sensitivities.
The product has great reviews on Amazon, but $10 for twelve donuts is a bit pricey for this penny-pincher!