Gluten free or sugar loaded?

Many of us often make mistakes when it comes to food choices: we try to cut corners by substituting whole food and quality nutrition for tasty treats that claim to be ‘healthy’. It’s really sad, actually, and it’s too bad that manufacturers will take trending terms such as “gluten free”, slap it on their products, and magically it transforms into a “healthy choice”, knowing very well that just because it’s free of gluten doesn’t mean it is healthy. This seems to do the trick for them. But you shouldn’t get caught up in the trending terms, don’t forget to read the labels and DON’T believe everything you read on the front of the packaging.

Try to answer the following two questions: what is gluten and