Even something as innocuous as whether the flour is bleached or unbleached can affect the outcome. Why does it matter? It all comes down to how refined wheat flour is treated after the milling ...

Whole wheat flour has a protein content around ... and it provides more structure in baked goods. Bleached flour has been treated with bleaching agents (like benzoyl peroxide) to speed up the ...

These days, you can find it bleached or unbleached ... to the naturally-occurring gluten in the wheat. Whole wheat flour is made with the entire wheat berry–endosperm, bran, and germ, and ...

Fortification programs for wheat flour have been standard ... and to increase the flour’s shelf life. The flour is then typically bleached to achieve the pleasing whiteness the average consumer ...

Flour tortillas have sometimes been derided as bleached-wheat products of colonization, as writer and historian Gustavo Arellano writes in a New Yorker piece praising this unsung tortilla hero.

There are so many varieties—not just all-purpose flour and bread flour, but cake and pastry flours too (not to mention the ever-broadening selection of whole grain flours, bleached flour vs.

General Mills has announced a voluntary recall of some bags of its Gold Medal Unbleached and Bleached All-Purpose Flour, due to possible salmonella contamination. The potentially affected bags of ...

Today: Bleached flour versus unbleached flour ... aisle at the grocery store can be mind-boggling: white whole wheat flour, white flour, bread flour, whole grain flour, cake flour, pastry ...