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You Can Eat Gluten Again, America

In fact, most of you always could. That isn’t stopping the food industry from making a mint on gluten-free products.
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Gluten-free is going strong.

Only 1 percent of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with celiac disease, yet gluten-free products are still filling up—and flying off—grocery store shelves. U.S. sales reached $1.57 billion last year, up 11 percent over 2014, according to data from Packaged Facts.