Coeliac disease, also called sprue or gluten intolerance, is a chronic disorder that affects the mucosa of the small intestine due to a reaction to gluten proteins that are contained in many types of grains.

If affected individuals consume foodstuffs that contain gluten, their bowel tissue reacts by absorbing fewer nutrients. This can produce symptoms such as weight loss, diarrhoea, loss of hair and vomiting.

Treatment:

Currently, the only effective treatment consists in a completely gluten-free diet that permits the bowel to heal and reduces the risk of long-term effects.

A gluten-free diet (e.g. potatoes, corn, rice, soybeans, pseudocereals, millet, vegetables, fruit, meat and fish, eggs, milk and dairy products) leads to a complete remission of symptoms. Products that contain wheat, spelt, green spelt, Kamut, Einkorn wheat, Emmer, oats, barley or rye must be avoided.

The following special gluten-free products are available in selected MPREIS markets:

• Mantler flour 1 kg
• Fusilli DS Food
• Spaghetti DS Food
• Crackers
• Snackers/Crunchy Bread
• Fruit and Nut Mix
• Corn Waffles
• Rice Waffles with Salt
• Chocolate Rice Waffles

Frozen Products:

• Almondy Tart - 3 different types
• Kaisersemmel rolls
• Lasagne
• Stuffed Cannelloni
• Fish Fingers
• Pizza Margherita
• Crepes tomato & mozzarella
• Puff Pastry

Gluten-free bread available at Baguette in MPREIS markets:

• Vitalbrot, sliced, 250 g
• Körnerbrot, 500 g

Sausages:

All sausage products made by MPREIS such as Extra, Pikant, Krakauer, Lyoner, Fleischkäse, Frankfurter, Braunschweiger, Toastschinken ham or, for instance, the uncooked fresh veal sausages, are gluten-free; furthermore all Berger, Messner, Greisinger and Hörtnagl products.

Frozen gluten-free products and pasta is available in the following markets:

MPREIS Innsbruck, An der Lan Straße 40
MPREIS Innsbruck, Bachlechnerstraße 46
MPREIS Innsbruck, Erzherzog Eugen Str. 41
MPREIS Innsbruck, Innrain 17-19
MPREIS Innsbruck, Pradlerstraße 69a
MPREIS Innsbruck, Viktor Franz Hess Str. 5
MPREIS Kirchberg, Brixentalerstraße 19
MPREIS Kufstein, Salurnerstraße 42-44
MPREIS Landeck, Bruggfeldstraße 7
MPREIS Lienz, Beda Weber Gasse 1a
MPREIS Rum, Feldkreuzstrasse 1
MPREIS St. Johann in Tirol, Bärnstetten 5c
MPREIS Schwaz, Mag. Josef Außerhoferstr. 8
MPREIS Telfs, Saglstraße 69 d
MPREIS Wattens, Bahnhofstraße 23
MPREIS Wörgl, Salzburger Straße 29

MPREIS Innsbruck DEZ – no frozen gluten-free products but pasta available.
MPREIS Nauders – no frozen gluten-free products but pasta available.