SafeBelly

Does restaurant chips contain gluten?

It depends. Potatoes themselves contain no gluten. The point is the fryer: if breaded cutlets, croquettes, onion rings or breaded mozzarella go through the same oil, the gluten ends up in the oil and from there on the chips. Some frozen chips are also dusted with flour to keep them crisp.

Eating out

"Is the fryer dedicated?" is the right question, and it is a different question from "do the chips contain gluten?". For someone with coeliac disease that is the difference that counts.

Recipes change from one producer to the next and from one kitchen to the next: this is how something is usually made, not what is in the plate in front of you. The only answer that holds for your plate is the ingredient list on the packet, or the person who cooked it.

And how did it go at the restaurant?

Knowing what is in a dish is half the answer. The other half is what actually happened to the people who ate it in a specific place — and that is what SafeBelly collects: no stars, just how it went afterwards.

Open the map and see who has been there

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