Belgium : Gluten-free

Gluten-free products at Lombardia

Do you only eat gluten-free products? The roll with your main dish, your sandwich with the soup, the cookie with your coffee, the pasta in your veggie meal, creamy cheese cake and much much more. Everything your heart desires can be served gluten free at Lombardia!

Don't forget, we also have gluten-free beer just for you!

Gluten-free bread

The first gluten-free bread I ever baked was a genuine culinary experiment. Now at Lombardia various different gluten-free breads and delicious biscuits are baked using almond flour, lentils and agave every day. We also sell a wide range of gluten-free products from Schar.

Cooking with gluten-free products

Lombardia in Antwerp is a unique gluten-free restaurant. The Belgian chef Piet Huysentruyt crowned me the Gluten-free King during one of his recordings of the Perfecte Keuken (the Perfect Kitchen) on VTM, where Piet and I regularly cook!

You can even attend cooking lessons with me on Kookeiland, if you want to learn how to cook exclusively with gluten-free products. It's guaranteed to be fun!

For more information on lactose-free and gluten-free cooking with Alain Indria from Lombardia, go to the Kookeiland.be website!

Why a gluten-free restaurant

If you have a gluten allergy or coeliac disease, your intestines cannot tolerate gluten, and you are advised to follow a gluten-free diet.

Gluten is a protein that is present in wheat, rye, barley, oat, spelt and kamut. Gluten damages the lining of the small intestine in Coeliac patients. This can result in poor uptake of the nutrients in food which are necessary for us to be able to function properly.

Possible symptoms of gluten allergy include a bloated feeling, nausea, weight loss, chronic diarrhea and constipation. A gluten-free diet is the only remedy for a gluten allergy. After starting on a gluten-free diet the complete repair of the intestine lining takes a few months to a year. A gluten-free diet needs to be adhered to closely for the rest of your life.

How to prepare gluten-free products. Piet Huysentruyt and Alain Indria cook gluten-free food for the Perfecte Keuken.

According to Piet, Alain is the "Gluten-free King'!!

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