What is Vital Wheat Gluten?
Vital wheat gluten is a natural protein source found in wheat. It is a powerful flour that is almost pure gluten. It is made from wheat flour that has had the gluten activated during a dehydrating process, removing all other ingredients except the gluten. Wheat gluten has very little starch content and a fantastic way of making dough elasticated.
Why should I get Vital Wheat Gluten?
Vital wheat gluten is great for bread making as it helps to increase the gluten content of the bake. It is equally great used in muffins, cakes and other bakes such as tarts and pastries where you are working with yeast ingredients. A small amount added to yeast bread recipes improves the texture and elasticity of the dough. When combined with water, it becomes highly elastic and has a sticky like texture. Vital Wheat Gluten is a natural and very effective raising agent, helping your bread fill out perfectly and evenly, giving it more volume. It can be especially helpful for baking bread made with whole grain flours and coarse cereals.
Vital Wheat Gluten can ensure recipes that require fruit, nuts and seeds, chocolate chips etc stay firmly held together and a good binder too! Brilliant for binding Vegan Meatballs, Burgers, Tofu etc.
To make Seitan: Mix Vital Wheat Gluten with spices and add water to make a dough. When the gluten dough is cooked either by steaming, baked or boiled it becomes chewy with a meat style texture!
Packaging Details:
Eco Friendly 100% Recyclable Packaging.
Some sizes are packed in resealable pouches.
Some sizes may be packed in non-resealable packaging.
What's In My Vital Wheat Gluten Flour?
Ingredients: Wheat Gluten
Storage: Store in a cool, dry place away from sunlight
Packed on premises that handle nuts, seeds, cereals, soya & products containing gluten.
Country of Origin: Germany
| Typical Values | Per 100g |
| Energy (kcals) | 403 Kcal |
| Energy (kj) | 1706 Kj |
| Protein | 80 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| - Of Which Saturates | 1 g |
| Carbohydrates | 9 g |
| - Of Which Sugars | 1 g |
| Salt | 0.13 g |
| Sodium | 52 mg |
| Fibre | 1 g |
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