GLUTEN-FREE DIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gluten-free diet mean? 

• GLUTEN-FREE DIET (noun)
  The noun GLUTEN-FREE DIET has 1 sense:

1. diet prescribed to treat celiac disease; eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in gluten

  Familiarity information: GLUTEN-FREE DIET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUTEN-FREE DIET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diet prescribed to treat celiac disease; eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in gluten

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gluten-free diet" is a kind of...):

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

 Context examples 

Patients on a gluten-free diet also had higher levels of reovirus antibodies and IRF1 levels in their small intestines, suggesting reovirus infection may lead to long-lasting gene expression changes.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Unlike celiac sprue (celiac disease), a gluten-free diet does not predict a certain regression of the disease.

(Collagenous Sprue, NCI Thesaurus)