Gluten Free at Kesté Pizza Go
Gluten Free at Kesté Pizza Go
Gluten Free at Kesté Pizza Go
What Gluten Free Means at Kesté Pizza Go
This page is for anyone who eats gluten free by necessity or by choice and wants to know exactly how we handle it before ordering. Celiac disease, a gluten sensitivity or a wheat concern all lead to the same questions: what is it made with, how do you keep it away from gluten, what is genuinely safe, and how does it reach me. The short answer is that we treat gluten free as a separate, careful process, not an afterthought added to the regular menu.
How We Avoid Cross-Contamination
Cross-contamination is where most gluten free food goes wrong, so it is where we pay the most attention. The gluten free dough is mixed and stretched in a separate area, away from the flour and semolina used for the regular pizzas, so no loose flour can drift onto it. Because a gluten free dough is more delicate than a wheat one, it is shaped by hand with extra care. Every gluten free item is then wrapped on its own and packed apart, so it stays protected from the moment it is made until it reaches your kitchen. In the box, gluten free items never share a package with products that contain gluten.
The Flour: Caputo Fioreglut, Gluten Free but Not Wheat Free
Our gluten free base is built on imported Caputo Fioreglut, a certified gluten free flour blend from Molino Caputo, the historic Naples mill, tested below 20 ppm of gluten. Fioreglut is made from deglutinated wheat starch, so it is gluten free but not wheat free. That distinction matters: it is suitable for celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, but anyone with a wheat allergy should not eat it, and the wheat allergen is declared on the label. The toppings, including the Italian peeled tomatoes and the house-made mozzarella, are the same ones we use across the regular menu, and they are naturally gluten free.
What You Can Eat Gluten Free
Gluten free here is not a single lonely pizza. It runs across the menu, starting with the Neapolitan-style gluten free pizzas on a Fioreglut crust.
It continues into lasagna made with gluten free Caputo pasta, both the Bolognese and the vegetarian version with basil cream and zucchini, listed among our frozen Italian pasta.
And it reaches the sweet course too, with the Caprese Cake, naturally gluten free thanks to almond flour, and a gluten free Tiramisù among our Italian desserts. A person who needs gluten free can put together a full meal, not just a main.
How It Is Shipped and Stored
Every gluten free order is baked, then sent frozen and packed with ice, shipped across the US so that most addresses receive it within one or two days. We use regular ice, not dry ice, only to keep it cold enough to refreeze on arrival. Move each item into the freezer as soon as it arrives and keep it frozen until you are ready. Before baking a gluten free pizza, let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes, then bake it at 500°F for 2:30 to 3:15 minutes in a home oven, until the base is crisp. Handle any leftover ice in the box with care and let it melt before discarding it.
FAQs
Not in its traditional form. A regular pizza dough is made with wheat flour, and ours uses Caputo Super Nuvola type 0 and type 1, so the original pies among our <u>Neapolitan classics</u> are not suitable for a gluten free diet. That is why the gluten free pizza line is a separate recipe on Caputo Fioreglut, made and packed apart from the wheat dough.
It can be. Wheat starch is the part of the grain left after the gluten proteins are washed out, and under the FDA gluten-free labeling rule a food made with it can be labeled gluten free only if it stays below 20 ppm of gluten. Caputo Fioreglut, the flour we use, is a gluten free blend built on this kind of starch. It still comes from wheat, though, so it does not suit a wheat allergy.
Not by default. A gluten free crust exists to replace wheat for people with celiac disease or a gluten sensitivity, not to cut calories, so for everyone else the nutrition of a pizza depends mostly on the toppings and the portion. If you do need to avoid gluten, you will find every recipe on a Fioreglut base in <u>our gluten free range</u>.
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