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Are Corn Flakes Gluten-Free?

Last Updated March 23, 2023. Published July 1, 2022 Good For You Gluten Free

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Are Corn Flakes Gluten-Free?

Are you curious if Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are gluten free? I will help you decode this cereal brand for gluten, as well as share gluten-free cornflake cereal alternatives with you. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosures.

Finding gluten-free cereals you love can be a difficult task, as so many cereals are off-limits when you’re following a gluten-free diet.

Gluten is found in products containing wheat, barley, rye, and sometimes oats, and derivatives of those grains.

While Kellogg’s Corn Flakes cereal sounds like it would be gluten free, after all, corn is gluten free and it’s made from toasted flakes of corn, the truth is it’s not gluten free at all.

In fact, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes contains gluten in the form of barley (malt). And while the cereal is wheat free, you also know that wheat free doesn’t always mean something is gluten free and vice versa.

In addition to Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, Crispix, and Frosted Flakes, also made by Kellogg’s, also are wheat free but not gluten free because they contain gluten in the form of barley malt, according to Kellogg’s website. It looks like Kellogg’s adds barley malt to a majority of its beloved cereal brands – beware!

While Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are not gluten free in the U.S., did you know that there are gluten-free labeled boxes of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in Australia?

If you’re craving Corn Flakes, not all is lost. There are a few brands that make gluten-free corn flake cereal alternatives, including:

  • Barbara’s Organic Corn Flakes
  • EnviroKidz Amazon Frosted Flakes (certified gluten free)
  • Incredi-Bowl Frosted Flakes (keto friendly)
  • Nature’s Path Corn Flakes (certified gluten free)
  • Nature’s Path Honey’d Corn Flakes (certified gluten free)
  • Nestle Gluten Free Corn Flakes
picture of gluten-free corn flakes alternatives

Plus, there are many other tasty gluten-free cereal brands you can trust. And who knows? Maybe you’ll find something you like better.

For a list of cereals I tested with my Nima Sensor for hidden gluten, many of which are not labeled gluten free but do not contain any gluten ingredients, please check out my list of gluten-free cereals article. (Nima Sensor is a portable gluten-detecting device.)

Are Corn Flakes gluten free? The bottom line answer is no.

Additional Reading

  • Beware of Malt and these 21 Potential Sources of Barley (Gluten)
  • List of Gluten-Free Cereals – Tested for Hidden Gluten
  • Is Cream of Rice Gluten Free? I Tested It!
  • Is Sprouted Wheat [Bread] Gluten Free?
  • Is Quinoa Gluten Free?
  • 42+ Gluten-Free Breakfast Recipes and Ideas
  • Gluten-Free Blueberry Banana Bread Breakfast Bowls (dairy-free + vegan)

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  1. Joseph Poole says

    November 19, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    If malt vinegar can be distilled to become gluten free “distilled malt vinegar”, can malt syrup be crafted to remove gluten in a distiller? Those are just liquid, and I didn’t believe barley enzyme/amylase to have a process to remove gluten. If you have an allis sensor, it can tell you how much gluten there is in anything that came back gluten found even with any synonym to gluten free. Dispite any barley enzyme in rice syrups, Brown rice syrup is only highlighted yellow as LIMIT just to neutrally gluten free note kelloggs crispix if you use the most serious mode of gluten free diet on FIG app. Otherwise with the least serious level, the cereal will be positively gluten free noted, even anything with only wheat starch is positively gluten free noted (Corn pops “old variety”, Honeycombs, toasted oat cereal most brands, pringles “excluding the BBQ variety itself”, and Airhead extreme small formated products “bites or sourfuls [they’re free of total protein grams]”). On the otherhand, honeycombs big bites is a WHEAT FREE group and post was the only brand to practice such group of honeycombs.

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