Gluten-free is no longer flavour-free

WHEN chef Gearóid Lynch stopped eating gluten after being diagnosed with coeliac disease in 2013, the improvement to his health was rapid — and radical. 

It was as if he had been walking through life on his hands and suddenly he was walking on his feet, he says.

All through his childhood, he was in and out of hospital with stomach cramps and other symptoms of coeliac disease — bloating, extreme fatigue, diarrhoea.