Hell no it isn’t! Despite all you read in the press, on blogs and posts.
So how can that be?? When less than 1% of people I test have an intolerance to wheat.
75% of people who come to me for testing have been restricting their wheat intake, expecting that it will be part of their problem. Some of them know that bread and pasta are an issue for them. For many of these people the intolerances I find are yeast [also in bread] and cheese [often consumed with pasta]
For others the cause is nothing to do with bread, but down to a staple food or drink frequently consumed, for example tea or coffee. The tea/coffee upsets the gut so that it is hard to digest wheat and other grains. But when the person avoids the root cause [tea/coffee] the gut can cope with digesting wheat and suffers no adverse symptoms. For more information see Chapter 11 ‘Wheat Intolerance-myth, fact or yeast?’ of my book ‘Food Intolerance Solutions’.