On-line Grocery Scans Products for GF

I have returned from vacation and was planning a lovely post on how great Mexico was, but ran across this in the news this morning and had to share it.

This is so cool - Peapod is an on-line grocery store.

Peapod delivers to 1,500 zip codes and over 12,700,000 households in the following metro areas:

Boston Cape Cod, Mass. Fairfax County, Va. Montgomery County, Md. Washington, D.C. Cromwell, Conn. Fairfield County, Conn. Hartford, Conn. New Haven, Conn. Long Island, N.Y. Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Medford, N.Y. Rhode Island Chicago Baltimore Watchung, N.J. Milwaukee, WI W. Danbury, Conn.

Peapod features over 8,000 products in a range of categories: produce; meat and seafood; deli items; prepared foods; natural and organic foods; Kosher foods; office and school supplies; seasonal items; and video products; pet items; health and beauty aids; wine, beer and spirits (in specific markets) and private labels from Peapod by Stop & Shop and Peapod by Giant So what is so cool about that?  The company now has what they call a  Nutrifilter which you can use to determine the contents of their food products, including gluten.  Here is a news article on Nutrifilter.  According to Peapod's website, the filter will: screen out all foods containing gluten based on the manufacturer's packaging claim. Products that do not normally contain gluten are not necessarily included

Even though they do not deliver to this area yet, I had to try it out and not on something easy like bread.  So I tried chicken broth and some dairy products and it seemed to work great.  However, when I tried gum and candy, there were some items that I know  are gluten free that did not show up as so.  I'd be curious to see if anyone else has tried this out and what they think.