The ingredient is on the label, it's just not in bold. Daylesford Organic is recalling its Minestrone Soup with Cannellini Beans, Pasta Shells & Olive Oil after the wheat (gluten) in the pasta shells wasn't properly emphasised on the packaging, as UK food labelling rules require. For most shoppers it's a non-issue, but for anyone with coeliac disease or a gluten intolerance, the bold text is the whole point, it's the cue that lets you scan a label in seconds and know whether the product is safe.
That's a long list of dates, so it's worth checking the side of the pot rather than relying on memory. If your soup falls anywhere in that range, it's part of the recall. Other Daylesford soups and other batches of the Minestrone are not affected.
If you have coeliac disease or a gluten allergy or intolerance:
For more information, contact Daylesford on 01608 692 871 or [email protected].
It's easy to assume an undeclared allergen means the allergen wasn't listed at all, but that's only half of UK food law. The rules also require the 14 major allergens to be emphasised in the ingredients list, usually with bold or contrasting text, so that someone scanning a label can spot them at a glance. When the bolding is missing, the legal threshold for "declared" hasn't been met, even if the word "wheat" appears in plain text further down.
For people with coeliac disease, that emphasis isn't a nicety, it's the entire reason allergen labelling works in practice. You don't read every ingredient end-to-end every time; you scan for the bold. Daylesford's recall is a useful reminder that the format of the label matters as much as its content. If you regularly buy chilled soups or ready meals, the FSA alerts page is the place to keep an eye on these, and signing up for their email alerts is a good shortcut if you'd rather not check manually.