Glutenfreeda.com: Product Testing

Scores: (1-5, 5 being the best)

Taste

These bagels taste more like gluten-free bread than bagels.

Texture

The texture is dry, dense and a little gritty. They are missing the traditional elasticity of an authentic bagel.

Storage

These bagels should be stored in the freezer and will keep for many months.

Availability

Glutino products are widely distributed both in Canada and the U.S.

Overall Score (3.25)

For those who long for a bagel, these bagels will satisfy your longing but do not have the characteristics of authentic bagels.

Product Tested:
Glutino Sans Gluten Free Bagels

Manufactured by:
Glutino/Importations DEROMA
2055, Boulevard Dagenais Quest, Laval, Quebec, Canada H7L 5V1
800.363.DIET
www.glutino.com

Gluten Free Bagels Sesame
Ingredients:
Corn mix (corn starch, skim milk powder, evaporated cane juice, salt, glucono-delta-lactone, pectin, sodium bicarbonate, sodium alginate, modified vegetable cellulose), water, tapioca starch, sesame seeds, margarine (palm and palm kernel oils, soy lecithin), skim milk powder, evaporated cane juice, liquid egg whites, safflower oil, liquid yolks, guar gum, yeast*, salt, thiamine, niacin, vitamin B6, riboflavin, fer, calcium.

This product and all Glutino products are manufactured in Canada. The bagels are packaged in bags of five and are frozen. The bagels are large and very closely resemble traditional gluten bagels in appearance. The manufacturer states that they are best when toasted and stored frozen. We found this to be accurate. We cut the bagel in half and toasted it. We tested them alone and with cream cheese. The bagels have a ‘gluten’ taste and are somewhat dry and gritty. Gluten is what makes a bagel chewy and elastic. Omitting the gluten has an expected affect. These bagels are more like gluten-free bread in a bagel shape.

-Glutenfreeda