Melbourne's gluten-free community has their big weekend locked in for October, with Gluten-Free Expo Melbourne returning to the Convention Centre.
Gluten-Free Expo Melbourne is back for 2025 with two full days of safe eating.
This is genuinely the one place where everything on offer is completely safe to eat – no stress, no checking labels, just proper food confidence for everyone who rocks up.
Gluten-Free Expo Melbourne fills the venue with safe eating options across the board, from freshly baked bread and sweet treats to gourmet snacks, sauces, ready-made meals and food trucks. Visitors can browse and taste everything without worry, with show specials and goodie bags sweetening the deal.
Gluten-Free Expo Melbourne
- Where: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
- When: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October 2025
- Tickets: here
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Both days of the Melbourne gluten-free expo feature solid educational content alongside the food focus. Saturday starts with fertility nutrition insights from Accredited Practising Dietitian Joanna Aaron-Silvanus, followed by Associate Professor Simon Knowles addressing myths around coeliac disease and eating disorders.
Sunday covers gut health with presentations from Accredited Practising Dietitian Joanna Baker and Associate Professor Jason Tye Din sharing current coeliac research developments. Families get entertainment with Jack the Silly Yak’s kids show, while Dr Kim Faulkner-Hogg tackles the ongoing oats debate.
MasterChef’s Melanie Persson, known as The Very Hungry Coeliac, demonstrates live cooking techniques throughout the weekend. The highlight remains the OMG Donuts Eating Competition, where contestants compete while crowds watch the sweet chaos unfold.
This Gluten-free expo in Melbourne works because it creates a proper community space where newly diagnosed people, lifestyle choosers and long-term advocates all connect. Finding a venue where every food option is completely safe isn’t common, making this weekend genuinely valuable for Melbourne’s gluten-free crowd.
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