Five Cheerios Varieties to Go Gluten-Free This Summer
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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — General Mills announced on Thursday that five of its Cheerios products will go gluten-free come July.
Original, Honey Nut, Multi-Grain, Apple Cinnamon and Frosted Cheerios will all be available in gluten-free formulas this summer, the company announced. Only the multi-grain variety requires a reformulation, as that flavor contains wheat and barley. Those ingredients will be replaced with sorghum and millet.
“We know there are many customers — as much as 30 percent in the U.S. — who avoid gluten,” President of General Mills’ Cereal Division Jim Murphy said, according to the company’s website. The company explained that it has developed a way to sort out the small amounts of wheat, rye and barley that are inadvertently introduced at the farms where the oats used in the cereal were grown.
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