My last post reminded me that I had yet to shout my joy over my favorite local gluten-free bakery, Cooqi, located conveniently on the Minneapolis/St. Paul boarder on Marshall Ave. It's interesting how quickly word spreads when it comes to finding great gluten-free food locally. I heard about Cooqi within only a few short weeks of it's opening and have told every Celiac I know that they have to check it out.
While there are other, less expensive, gluten-free products more easily available at your local grocery store the vast majority of GF products on the market currently are made from ingredients that offer little nutritional value. According to Cooqiglutenfree.com many products "list the first two ingredients as white rice flour and tapioca starch. And maybe the third ingredient is cornstarch. Meaning that these "foods" are almost pure simple carbohydrate-in other words, sugar. Considering that most folks who come to GF eating are recovering from digestive disorders, and many are in fact malnourished, it seems strangely punishing to offer them foods devoid of nutrients". But until recently, the focus has been solely on taste and creating foods to resemble lost foods (and, actually, probably those long lost white-flour favorites were not so nutri
tious to begin with). Cooqi puts focuses on creating delicious AND nutritious gluten-free options including organic whole grains, free-range eggs, hormone-free butter, organic agave, honey, real maple syrup, or evaporated cane juice, and other good things. They make really yummy things by hand, from scratch, from pure, real ingredients that happen to make amazing gluten-free foods!
Pass on the word to the Celiacs in your life!
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