Gluten Free Food Facts

• 82% of staff catering facilities cannot offer Gluten Free hot food options.
• 85% of universities cannot offer hot food options.
• Only 5% of Gluten Free hot food offered in work place and college catering facilities has certification on site.
• 98% of coeliacs says on-site certification is important to them.
• In a recent survey of coeliacs in the UK and Irish universities, not one student could name a Gluten Free Food service brand.

Shopping Behaviours of Gluten Free Consumers.

• 55% of coeliacs spend 30% or more of their grocery budget on Gluten Free foods.
• 68% of coeliacs shop at three or more stores per month to find Gluten Free foods.

Why Gluten Free?

• 13% of consumers are eating/buying Gluten Free to treat other health conditions/symptoms, or to lose weight.
• The market for Gluten Free products has grown to about €40 million consumers, out of which only 4 million suffer from the disease.
• The UK Gluten Free market is valued at over £500 million in 2015, up 24% on 2014.
• There are up to 940,000 people following a Gluten Free diet in the UK and Ireland.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for coeliac disease. A 100% Gluten Free diet is the only existing treatment for coeliac disease today.