Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has long built his presidential platform on fixing the military, which he argues has been ‘neglected’ during President Obama’s term. One of his biggest points is that the military should remain separate from social issues, such as legal marriage for LGBT Americans and women in combat roles.

Time to add another issue to the roster: Gluten-free food.

While speaking to South Carolina voters Tuesday, Cruz mentioned gluten-free Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs) while explaining why ‘social experiments’ should not be conducted in the military.

“That’s why the last thing any commander should need to worry about is the grades he is getting from some plush-bottomed Pentagon bureaucrat for political correctness or social experiments—or providing gluten-free MREs,” Cruz said.

Whatever your opinion on women in combat or the presence of openly gay service members in the military, you have to admit that the reference to gluten-free MREs is perplexing because it’s a non-issue.

Fad gluten-free diets may be infecting your Pinterest feed, but it’s a health necessity for the 1 percent of Americans who suffer from celiac disease. The thing is, the military won’t accept people diagnosed celiac disease into its ranks. If someone enters the military and is diagnosed afterwards, the military will assess whether or not that service member should be discharged on a case-by-case basis. Usually, only the most experienced or indispensable service members will stay.

According to Time, not every branch even offers gluten-free MREs. The provision to give gluten-free meals to service members varies from service to service. Most of the time, soldiers simply trade away their gluten-rich foods for safer ones.

So only a handful of diagnosed service members are eating those wheat-free, prepackaged meals, and that’s only because they have explicit permission from their superiors.

Cruz is right, commanders shouldn’t worry about gluten-free MREs. And neither should he.