Jennifer Martin: 1990s gluten-free products used feed corn causing perceived allergies
Jennifer Martin · Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin · Apr 26, 2021 · at 13:07
Pipcorn co-founder Jennifer Martin discusses navigating severe food allergies, celiac disease, and the poor quality of gluten-free ingredients during the 1990s before founding her snack brand.
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“And a lot of the reason I couldn't eat corn was because at that time, the gluten-free products were all made with really, really bad corn, you know, like not corn that you're supposed to be eating, like it was like feed corn that basically we're eating, and so I think that was a lot of the reason for the corn, what I thought was a corn allergy.”
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