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gluten-free

gluten-free adjective: of food, containing no gluten.

Adjective

gluten-free (not comparable)

  1. (nutrition) Of food, containing no gluten.
    • Let’s cut to the chase: there are as many ways to make a brownie as there are ways to cover yourself in chocolate in the process, but the real difference between the gluten-free recipes are in what they replace the wheat with.2020 January 8, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2020
  2. (nutrition) Of a person, not eating gluten.

Origin of gluten-free

From gluten + -free.

Words formed from gluten-free

Questions about gluten-free

What does gluten-free mean?
Gluten-free means of food, containing no gluten.
What part of speech is gluten-free?
Gluten-free is an adjective.

Words near gluten-free in the dictionary

  1. glutelins
  2. gluten
  3. gluten bread
  4. gluten breads
  5. gluten casein
  6. gluten-free
  7. gluten-free madness
  8. glutenase
  9. glutenases
  10. glutenfree
  11. glutenin

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