Beware!!! Tesco Ancient Grain #tesco #wheatsensitive

When you see something called an Ancient Grain Bloomer loaf I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that it is made with ancient grains.

Having bought one of these and eaten some on that assumption – I was quite ill for several days

so I tweeted Tesco

• Me – @tesco is ancient grain bloomer made from ancient grain flour or just had grains added? (I added a reminder 2 days later)

• Tesco – Hi Jan, I’m terribly sorry about the late delay in responding back to you. I’d like to help with your query and here’s a link to some information for you to review. I hope it helps. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300547113…

• me – I read that. I need to know if the wheat flour used is ancient grain.

• Tesco – Hi there, I’ll ask my support team to investigate this further and get back to you. 

   (later)

  Hi Jan, thanks for your patience. We do use wheat flour in the ancient grain bloomer.

So there you have it – the Ancient Grain Bloomer has ‘added’ grains but is made from wheat flour. DO NOT EAT if you are wheat sensitive – even  if (like me) you are able to tolerate small amounts of spelt etc.