The Truth About Gluten

Excerpt from AARP: (click for entire article)

Everywhere you turn — from the corner bakery to the stadium concession stand — you’re increasingly likely to find gluten-free foods. Americans spent $2.6 billion on gluten-free products in 2010, 30 percent more than four years earlier.

Clearly gluten — a protein found in wheat, barley and rye — is today's ingredient non grata.

Is gluten-free just another foodie fad? Or is it a potentially dangerous ingredient?

The answer is complicated.