Ep 130 Understanding Alcohol Labelling – A Converstion with Selena Devries
Let’s start the blog with the show notes for this Episode –
This week’s episode is a comprehensive guide to reading alcohol labels. This may not be something you’ve thought much about, or maybe it’s something that has caused you much confusion. My guest, Registered Dietitian Selena Devries, breaks it all down for us. She explains what needs to be on the labelling of each different category of alcoholic beverage, and how to determine if it’s gluten free or not. You can find Selena online at –
Instagram -@celiac_dietitian
Sue’s Websites and Social Media –
Podcast https://acanadianceliacpodcast.libsyn.com
Podcast Blog – https://www.acanadianceliacblog.com
Facebook – @acanadianceliacpodcast
Twitter – CeliacPodcastCA
Email – acdnceliacpodcast@gmail.com
Baking Website – https://www.suesglutenfreebaking.com
Instagram – @suesgfbaking
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVGfpD4eJwwSc_YjkGagza06yYe3ApzL
Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com
Other Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com
My Thoughts –
Alcohol, it’s a big subject. I’ll let you in on a little secret. After my weight loss surgery 6 years ago, I was instructed to give up alcohol, at least for the first 6 months or a year. That was just fine for me, I didn’t miss it at all, so I never went back to it. My husband, grown children and friends all drink alcohol and it doesn’t even both me to be around them. Maybe that’s from my gluten free training; being able to watch others enjoy something I wasn’t going to have.
In any case, I find the labelling information Selena passed on to us was very interesting. I hadn’t known alcohol was classified as “standardized” or “unstandardized”. The more I thought about it the more sense it made.
In this day and age, when sports drinks, power drinks and exotic smoothies are all the rage, we still have to pull back and check the ingredients. We tend to think if we stick with familiar flavours like fruit, we should be fine. It’s not quite that simple. Which makes what I learned from Selena all that more surprising. Deciphering labels on alcohol for gluten content is really quite easy, in Canada anyway.
I’m not expecting to travel out of the country any time soon, but when I next do, I’ll be curious to read how alcohol labelling is done in other countries. I’m sure I’ll look odd reading liquor bottle and cooler drink labels only to put them all back on the shelf and leave empty handed. That’s the price I’ll pay for my curiosity.