Gluten Free Muffins

Free from wheat......  delicious to eat

Trust Muffin Break to cook up the answer to your need for Gluten Free food. Muffin Break has just introduced a tasty new range of Gluten Free muffins, great for people who need to avoid gluten in their diet and great for everyone that really enjoys a delicious muffin.  

We bake in store with fresh ingredients and a specially created mix and follow strict procedures to ensure our gluten free muffins are in fact gluten free.

What is gluten?

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, oats, rye and barley. Any foods that contain these grains, or ingredients made from them, will contain gluten. For example, most breads, breakfast cereals and crispbreads contain gluten.

Who should eat gluten free foods?

Gluten free foods can be eaten by anyone, however people who suffer from coeliac disease need to avoid gluten in their diet for health reasons. For these people, eating a gluten free diet is essential for maintaining health and wellbeing.

Nutritional Information

Here’s our label for 100% tasty Gluten Free muffins:

Operational Procedures 

To ensure our muffins are free from all gluten the following procedures have been undertaken by Muffin Break:

• The Gluten Free muffin pre-mix is produced at only one mill in Ballarat.
• Before production the mill is thoroughly cleaned and tested for trace elements of gluten.
• An independent supplier provides gluten free ingredients for Muffin Break to create the gluten free muffin mix. These ingredients are tested prior to delivery for any traces of gluten.
• The ingredients are made specifically for each batch. Once each batch is completed, samples of the mix are sent to two different laboratories to be tested. When they are returned meeting the standards of “gluten free” the mix is then bagged and transported to Muffin Break stores.
• The gluten free muffin was trialed in several stores throughout Australia prior to its release. During this trial, samples of the muffins were collected on random days and sent to the Australian Government National Measurement Institute. Here they were tested for any trace elements of gluten. This was to check that the operational procedures conducted by the stores did not contaminate the product with gluten in any way. All samples returned an assessment of “gluten free”.
• At a store level, all equipment used to prepare the gluten free muffins are washed separately.
• Gluten free muffins are the first product baked on the day and are baked above any other product that may also be in the oven.
• Once the product is baked they are placed at the top of the cooling rack and away from other muffin products and raw ingredients
• The gluten free muffins are displayed in the top row of the display cabinet to reduce the possibility of contamination with other products.
• Gluten free muffins are always handled using specified tongs. These tongs are only used on these muffins and not on any other product.

Thickeners

The gluten free muffins contain two thickeners, numbered 1422 and 412, both of these thickeners are gluten free. Thickeners 1400-1450 may be derived from wheat, meaning they contain gluten.  However the specific thickener 1422 used in the Muffin Break gluten free muffins is derived from a gluten free grain, not from wheat.  Thickener 412 is also gluten free, so both of the thickeners are suitable for people with Coeliac Disease.

Muffin Varieties

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