Is corn tortilla gluten free?
Yes, and here is why
Corn tortilla is not a gluten grain, and Munchable does not flag it for coeliac disease. It is worth saying explicitly because corn tortilla reaches the gluten vocabulary through Munchable's own taxonomy: the general word above it is one Munchable does flag, and the specific entry for corn tortilla is what stops the flag reaching it.
What Munchable checks for Coeliac disease
- Wheat and every name for it: semolina, couscous, bulgur, durum, spelt, kamut, einkorn, emmer, farro, seitan
- Barley and rye, including malt, malt extract, malt flavouring and malt vinegar
- Wheat starch, wheat protein and wheat bran, which the taxonomy files away from the grain
- Bread, breadcrumbs, rusk, panko, pasta, noodles, dough, pastry, biscuits, cake, wafers, pretzels and beer
- Oats, oat milk and muesli as a caution, cleared by a gluten-free claim
- The words that name a form rather than a grain: tortilla, soba, brewer’s yeast
- The pack’s own gluten-free claim, attributed to the manufacturer
- The printed "Contains" and "may contain" lines, read independently of the ingredients
- Rice, maize, buckwheat, quinoa, millet, sorghum, teff and polenta left alone, along with the wheat glucose syrups that EU law exempts
The full reasoning, and the evidence behind it, is in the Coeliac disease guide.
Other ingredients Munchable flags for Coeliac disease
The catch with reading labels yourself
Knowing that corn tortilla is a problem is the easy part. Finding it is the hard part: it hides behind wordings that do not look like it, it matters more near the top of the list than the bottom, and a product you have bought for years quietly reformulates. That is the job Munchable does in the aisle, in about a second, from the barcode.
Check it in the shop, not at home
Point your phone at the barcode and Munchable reads the ingredients list for you, before it goes in the basket.