I was told I should cross post this here as well. So here goes!
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with Celiac a few years ago, and I quickly learned that grocery shopping with that diagnosis is a complete nightmare. You end up staring at labels for 5 minutes trying to figure out if "yeast extract" or "natural flavors" is going to make you sick.
To help her out, I spent the last few months building a free tool that parses ingredient lists and cross-references them to flag hidden gluten. I recently made it public for anyone to use:
https://glutensense.org
You can search manually or use it on your phone as a barcode scanner in the aisles. It'll tell you if a product is Safe, Caution, or Not Safe, and highlight the exact problem ingredients.
I've got the backend processing about 1,000 new products a week, and the database just crossed 6,000 items.
My ask: If you, your spouse, or your kids are gluten-free, please feel free to use thisI hope it makes your grocery runs a little easier!
Also, if anyone just wants to poke around, search for some random pantry items, and try to break the search engine so I can fix the bugs, I would really appreciate the feedback.
Thanks!
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with Celiac a few years ago, and I quickly learned that grocery shopping with that diagnosis is a complete nightmare. You end up staring at labels for 5 minutes trying to figure out if "yeast extract" or "natural flavors" is going to make you sick.
To help her out, I spent the last few months building a free tool that parses ingredient lists and cross-references them to flag hidden gluten. I recently made it public for anyone to use:
https://glutensense.org
You can search manually or use it on your phone as a barcode scanner in the aisles. It'll tell you if a product is Safe, Caution, or Not Safe, and highlight the exact problem ingredients.
I've got the backend processing about 1,000 new products a week, and the database just crossed 6,000 items.
My ask: If you, your spouse, or your kids are gluten-free, please feel free to use thisI hope it makes your grocery runs a little easier!
Also, if anyone just wants to poke around, search for some random pantry items, and try to break the search engine so I can fix the bugs, I would really appreciate the feedback.
Thanks!
Grocery shopping with Celiac is a nightmare of hidden ingredients. 🛒
— Gluten Sense (@gluten_sense) May 18, 2026
So, I built a free barcode scanner that flags hidden gluten (like yeast extract and dextrin) to tell you exactly what’s safe.https://t.co/RkqulNHjqY#GlutenFree #CeliacDisease