If you’re going to swear off of a food, other people would expect that you actually know what it is.
Jimmy Kimmel got the impression that people obsessed with gluten-free foods didn’t even know what gluten was. When he went out to the streets to find out, some of his suspicions were confirmed.
For what it’s worth, gluten is composed of the gliadin and glutenin proteins responsible for making doughs elastic.
Research has found that one of the more popular forms of gluten intolerance, celiac disease, affects 1 in every 141 people in the United States.
Now that you know, watch this video to find out what all those gluten-free people think it is.
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