Coeliac disease is the most frequent food intolerance, affecting about 1% of the world’s population (Italian Ministry of Health – Annual Report to Parliament on coeliac disease – 2015). The only currently available treatment consists of removing gluten from the diet.

The constant growth in the consumption of GLUTEN FREE products is explained not only by the increase in cases of coeliac disease but also by the larger number of persons who discover they are sensitive to gluten and decide voluntarily, also on the basis of media reports, to exclude them from their diet.

To meet this growing market demand, in 2016 Appetais decided to convert its historic bakery plant into a facility exclusively dedicated to the production of frozen GLUTEN FREE products, such as pizza and the typical Ligurian farinata, with AIC certification.