Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread VS. Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread

In the contest between Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread, the first question is: who on earth eats this stuff? Rice bread? Millet and Flax bread? What's wrong with good old Wonder Bread, you might ask? For our family, Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread are the only type of bread that we can eat. We are a gluten-free family for a wide range of reasons, and must not eat any bread made with barley, rye, wheat, oats, or spelt. In the end, when weighing out the difference and quality between Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread, Sami's Millet and Flax bread wins hands-down.

Being gluten-free isn't easy. Gluten is in everything. It's in almost all processed foods, canned and packaged soups, ice creams and ice cream products, breakfast cereals, most chips, breakfast bars, pastas, and in many candies. Gluten is a cheap filler for manufactured goods, and so our family has become label readers. Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread provide our family with a small feeling of freedom; the freedom most people take for granted to eat a sandwich, have French toast, or make stuffing.

We are gluten-free for two main reasons. First, my husband has celiac disease. Celiac disease affects 1 in 133 people in the United States. It is an autoimmune disorder, and when a person with celiac eats gluten, the gluten lodges itself in the villi of the small intestine. It crushes, or folds, the villi, making it impossible for the digestive tract to absorb the food and its nutrients properly. If a person with celiac disease continues to eat gluten, they will die a slow death. Eating gluten when you have celiac also increases rates of certain cancers. So goodbye, gluten, in our household. Hello Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread.

The second reason we are gluten-free comes from my older son. He has a light form of autism called Asperger Syndrome. Many kids with autism benefit from a gluten-free, casein-free diet. Therefore, we started trying gluten-free substitutes for his favorite foods, bread being one of them. Incorporating Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread into our diet really helped him to transition to a gluten-free dietary style.

I don't need to be gluten-free, and neither does my younger son, but we choose to do so. We feel that it would be cruel to eat gluten-containing items in front of my husband and older son. Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread and other gluten-free breads, such as the Glutino brand line, all help us to eat tasty substitutes.

We discovered Sami's Millet and Flax bread while on vacation in Fort Myers, Florida a few years ago. We were at Ada's, a local health food store, when we decided to try this funky-looking bread. It lookos like standard Italian bread, but with lots of brown flecks in it-the ground-up flax seed. The bread was lighter than most gluten-free breads, and we were addicted from the first slice. We weren't addicted the price; a loaf of Sami's Millet and Flax bread was $4.

Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread we ordered through the mail. Unfortunately, when we tasted it, it tasted like most rice breads. Rice bread can't rise easily, so it tends to be extremely thick, heavy, and gummy when you eat it. It's not a sandwich bread. We used it to make French toast, which masked the gummy texture and heavy flavor. But we quickly returned to Sami's Millet and Flax bread.

In the contest between Sami's Gluten-free Millet and Flax Bread and Cybro's Gluten-free Rice Bread, Sami's Millet and Flax bread wins!