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ArticleNutrition bulletin2025

Higher cost of gluten-free products compared to gluten-containing equivalents is mainly attributed to staple foods.

Eirini Bathrellou, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Despoina Lamprou, Evanthia Fragedaki, Eleftheria Papachristou, Frank Vriesekoop, Meropi D Kontogianni

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Article in Nutrition bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reported Availability, Additional Cost and Use of Methods to Limit Cross-Contact of Gluten-Free Foods in Restaurants in a Canadian Large Urban Centre.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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  2. Limited Availability and Higher Cost of Gluten-Free Foods Continue in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Follow-Up Over More Than a Decade.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Eirini BathrellouDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1344-2505
Vasiliki BountzioukaComputer Simulations, Genomics and Data Analysis Lab, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, Lemnos, Greece.
Despoina LamprouDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Evanthia FragedakiDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Eleftheria PapachristouDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Frank VriesekoopDepartment of Food, Land and Agribusiness Management, Harper Adams University, Newport, UK.
Meropi D KontogianniDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high cost of gluten-free products (GFPs) is being discussed as a potential barrier to adherence to a gluten-free diet, rendering monitoring of their pricing an ongoing demand in a market subject to continuous fluctuations. The current study aimed to assess the current pricing status of GFPs in the Greek retail market, with a focus on differences between staple and non-staple foods. The retail price and packaging weight of all available GFPs and their gluten-containing (GCPs) counterparts of a GFP-shopping basket (formulated based on the results of a preceding online survey) were recorded by visiting one store of the five most popular reported supermarket chains. The food categories were grouped into staple (e.g. breads, pasta and flours) and non-staple (e.g. chips, sweets and sauces) foods. Adjusting for supermarket chain and product type, a quantile mixed regression model was applied to assess the extent to which median product price (per 100 g) differed between GFPs and GCPs. The unique products recorded were 1058 (of which 408 GFPs), with a total of 2165 retail price recordings. While the overall median price/100 g of GFPs was not found to be significantly different from that of GCPs, the median price of staple GFPs was estimated to be higher than staple GCPs (+€1.03 [95% CI: €0.93; €1.13] per 100 g), whilst that of non-staple GFPs was slightly lower (-€0.20 [95% CI: -€0.37; -€0.02] per 100 g). In conclusion, the persisting higher cost of staple GFPs suggests the need for ongoing financial support for people with coeliac disease.

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Diet, Gluten-FreeFoodGlutensCommerceCosts and Cost AnalysisFlourFood MarketsGreeceHumansGlutenscoeliac diseaseconsumer satisfactioncost comparisongluten‐free dietpricingsupermarkets

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PMID39460519
PMCPMC11815601

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