I’m an Australian living in the US, my brother is married to a lovely Korean girl. Every time I go to H Mart I send her pics of the Korean items I’ve purchased and she tells me whether she’s had them before and liked them or not and what else I should be looking for next time I go.
Anyway, they are vacationing in Korea right now and just surprised me by shipping me a big box of Korean food. I have celiac disease and cannot eat gluten (and I thought I had been really clear about that).
My heart sank when I opened the box, I can’t read the labels because they’re all in Korean but a lot, if not all, looks like it’s probably gluten-filled.
Can someone help me out please? I can send close ups of the labels if need be. I’d also love to know what flavors the drinks are. Thanks in advance!
by sandgroper1968
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Plug these images into google translate. You’ll get a laugh and maybe an answer.
Just the drinks. Maybe the gummy candies. Take a pic of the back with all the ingredients listed?
Use Google translate on your phone, and you can read the ingredient labels. However, from being gf myself and a regular visitor of my local Korean grocery, everything aside from the drinks should be checked. The cakes in the first photo and the stuff in the fourth photo are likely not gf though, if I had to guess based on what I’ve seen before.
Non of them are gluten free except for the 마이쮸 Mychew(?) and drinks.
Isn’t… juice?
The flavours of the drinks are the pictured fruits on the cans. It probably like a flavoured hard seltzer, it seems to have soju because 이슬 is dew, associated with soju
Isn’t 약과 gluten-free? I could be mistaking but it doesn’t have any dough, right?
Check for the text 밀 함유(“contains wheat”) that’s been highlighted in the ingredients list. Also check if the snacks were produced in a factory mill that also deals with wheat, barley, etc., which is often included in the description. Judging by the ingredient lists I found in Korean, the chestnut + red bean yanggaeng (coagulated agar agar “jelly”) and the drinks appear to be wheat-free, although I don’t know down to the details like corn syrup are GF certified.
Crown’s 콘칲(Corn Chips) is wheat-free, so I think you can eat it if you can find it in your local Korean stores. And glutinous rice cakes like injeolmi (literally glutinous rice dough that’s been kneaded and coated with roasted soybean flour) and chapssaltteok (think of those Japanese mochi coated with cornstarch and filled with red bean paste, although modern stores come up with lots of fusion flavors like cream cheese, strawberry, blueberry, tiramisu, even green tea) is easy to make from scratch.