Guide to Celiac and Gluten-Free Translation Cards

Updated: November 2023

Translation cards are essential to your gluten-free and celiac travel. These are cards in many languages and they will alert your server about your dietary restrictions. I have used these translations cards across the globe, from Italy to Singapore, and even at home in New York City. They are an easy way to bridge the communication gap and speak openly about your gluten-free diet. I suggest using more than one to get your point across when traveling. In my experience, most restaurant staff are happy to comply.

Paid Translation Cards

SelectWisely

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SelectWisely provides health and travel translation cards and services to people with food allergies and other medical conditions. The cards improve communication when traveling in countries where foreign languages are spoken. Cards also used in local restaurants and are available in English as well. Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free Asia & Europe cards, and Gluten-Free & Milk Allergy card available.
Price varies. 

Equal Eats

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Discount code: GFGlobetrotter (10% off your order)
Pre-set cards including celiac disease, food allergies, medicine allergy, latex allergy, and more. Available in more than 20 languages. Customized Allergy Cards and accessories now available.
Prices vary starting at $6.99.
Also available on Amazon.com.

Legal Nomads

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These cards were written by a blogger, written with the traveler in mind. They use local dish names, based on what’s eaten in that country not just a translation. They also have a clear mention of cross-contamination, care with preparation, and contaminated oil. All cards are double checked for accuracy with two translators familiar with food, who speak the local language.
Languages: Thai, Dutch, Polish, Malaysian, General French, Latin American Spanish, France French, Moroccan, German, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, Japanese 
$8.99 per card per language

Allergic Traveler International Dietary Alert Cards

Food allergies? Dine anywhere with less worry. Whether you’re dining in Chinatown or Hong Kong, Little Italy or Rome, or your own hometown, now you can communicate your dietary allergies to waiters and chefs in virtually any language. They are available in wallet size or luggage format. They are durable, customized and discreet. Available in more than 17 languages. Wallet size is popular with teenagers and adults. Luggage size is popular with young kids for their back packs while at sleep overs or on school trips.
$12.95 + $5.95 S&H (2 identical wallet size, laminated cards); $13.95 + $5.95 S&H (2 identical luggage tag size, laminated cards)

Gluten-Free Passport Dining Cards

In order to navigate your way in foreign countries, it is important to effectively communicate your needs in the native language. Gluten-Free Passport has compiled various gluten-free dining cards, phrases and a multi-lingual phrase guide to help you during your journeys.
$4.99 and up

DELICARDO Food Cards

The DELICARDO foodcard is made for food allergy and intolerance sufferers, or people on restrictive diets, who want to take the frustration out of eating out. Avoid elaborate explanations and requests while dining by handing a DELICARDO foodcard containing all of your dietary do’s and don’ts over to the service personnel. With the precise and discrete card, the chef will be informed of what you can’t eat, what foods may contain allergens and what foods you can eat without risk of an allergic reaction. DELICARDO offers both standard and personalized Foodcards.
Price varies. 

Coeliac Sanctuary Coeliac and Other Dietary Needs Travel Cards

Double sided, extra thick Coeliac travel cards, designed to help restaurants help you eat safely. One languages per card, for Coeliacs with other allergies and/or dietary requirements. Made in the UK but shipped worldwide.
Starting at £1.99

Free Translation Cards

CeliacTravel.com Translation Cards

The gluten free restaurant cards from CeliacTravel.com are free but donations are suggested. As of January 2021, these cards are available in 63 languages.
Free

CeliacTravel.com Translation Card iPhone App

Same as above, but for your iPhone.
Free

EqualEats English Digital Download Cards

Celiac disease, peanut allergy, egg allergy, shellfish allergy, and much more.
All English downloads are free.

Brokerfish Food Allergy Cards

International Health Insurance company Brokerfish has created sevendifferent food allergy cards in six different languages. You can download a PNG (image) file of each card and use these on your travels. The current cards include dairy, nuts, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish, and gluten in French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanes, and Thai. There is even an EMERGENCY cards that helps you communicate that you  need immediate medical attention.
Free in 6 languages

Gluten-Free Card 

Gluten Free Card is an app that explains the dietary requirements of a strict gluten-free diet in ten popular languages. Free printable cards are also available.
Available in 10 languages

Gluten-Free Jio Restaurant Dining Cards

Created by a teenager living with celiac disease in India. These free printable cards are especially useful if traveling in India, as they list common Indian cuisine. These cards are available in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.
Free in 10 languages

Hindi Gluten-Free Restaurant Card

Created by the Celiac Society Rajasthan, these gluten-free restaurant cards are translated into Hindi. They “provide you their Gluten Free Restaurant Card to speak to service staff and they will really pleased to get the ‘card’ to avoid the pressure of understand your actual request. Subsequently, conveying the same not verbally to their chef.”
Free in 1 language

GF Jules Cook Cards

Dining out safely gluten free is all about communication. Print out these gfJules™ Gluten Free Restaurant Cards and take them with you when you go out to eat, whether here or abroad. There are blanks on the cards so you can tailor them to your needs if you have additional dietary restrictions besides gluten, and spaces to explain your needs in other ways, if you prefer.
Free in 5 languages

Celiac Restaurant Card

Created by Beautifully Gluten-Free, this English language card is helpful when teaching others about being gluten-free.
Free in 1 language

Coeliac Youth of Europe Travel Net

This is a wonderful free resource that includes the main information on gluten free in each European country, including useful phrases for asking for a gluten free venue in many different languages.
Free in 30 languages

Celiac Travel Cards

Created by a gluten-free travel blogger, these free celiac travel cards are available in more than 30 languages.
Free