Why is gluten free food so expensive?
There are two reasons why gluten free food is so expensive. The first is that, as you will know if you’ve ever tried, it’s quite a lot more difficult to make some things without gluten. And the flours which are used to replace normal flour are more expensive, partly because wheat is so readily available. The second reason, of course, is that manufacturers aren’t averse to making extra profits out of people who have no other choice. Not all of them do this, I guess, but certainly normal business practice is to charge as much as the market will bear – and where are people who have to eat gluten free going to go, otherwise?
