These websites of the suppliers promise to offer a huge selection of gourmet gluten free baking mixes, ready to eat breads, snack foods, convenience meals and even cook books. Online ventures regarding concerns selling gluten free foods have also come up to facilitate procuring of gluten free foods. Gluten refers to a protein found in wheat, rye, malt and barley. Though a gluten free diet is medically imperative only for the sufferers of celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis other people may also prefer to choose such diet. When patients suffering from celiac disease consume gluten the absorptive ‘villi’ in the small intestine get damaged thereby preventing the absorption of many important nutrients. Products made with bean flours and similar other alternatives of wheat flour are provided too. Again, people who have dermatitis herpetiformis that is gluten induced skin sensitivity need also stay away from foods containing gluten.