Playing with Play-Doh is such huge part of American childhood. Tell me
you didn’t, the first time you opened up a jar of it for your kid,
inhale deeply and immediately feel five years old again.
And
maybe, just like most five year olds, really curious about what the
stuff actually tastes like (answer: salt and feet. Seriously, it’s
gross). But for kids with wheat allergies, even playing with it can
cause a reaction. Hasbro won’t say what’s in it, but the cans do carry
an allergy warning for wheat.
Enter college ingenuity. Sawyer
Sparks, an agricultural economics junior at Purdue, tried making
gluten-free beer when a professor said she couldn’t drink it because of
an allergy to gluten (a grade grubber after my own heart). He glopped a
bunch of gluten-free ingredients, including soy flour, into a pot on
his stove, and well, while you wouldn’t want to drink the resulting
gloop, it turns out it makes a really great substitute for traditional Play-Doh.
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