Is cheesecake gluten free?

What the sources tell us

The Celiac Disease Foundation lists cheesecake filling among foods that may contain gluten, because some recipes include wheat flour.[4]

The Gluten Intolerance Group looks at the dessert in two parts. It says the cake part of a traditional cheesecake typically uses gluten-free ingredients, such as block cream cheese, sugar, lemon, vanilla extract and eggs, but the crust does not, unless it is made specifically with gluten-free flour or graham crackers.[6]

The crust matters because the Celiac Disease Foundation lists graham crackers among common foods that contain gluten, along with cakes, cookies and pie crusts.[4]

The group's advice is to ask questions when eating cheesecake out and to read the label when buying it at the store. For a product that is not certified or labeled gluten-free, its label reading tips say the product is not gluten-free if the ingredient list includes wheat, rye, barley, malt or brewer's yeast, or oats without a gluten-free label or certification mark.[6][5]

The GFCO list includes GF CHEESECAKE NY from Trumps Food, Assorted Mini Cheesecakes from GeeFree and GLUTEN FREE LEMON CHEESECAKE from Sprouts Farmers Market. GFCO says that a product on its list is not certified if its packaging does not carry the certification mark.[3][2][1]