Carob Flour and Gluten-Free Diet
One of the biggest challenges for people on a gluten-free diet is ensuring that products that do not contain wheat flour are both nutritious and delicious. Gluten-free products often rely on refined ingredients such as rice flour and cornstarch and may remain poor in fiber. Carob flour offers an interesting option at this point as a raw material that does not naturally contain wheat.
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Carob flour (powder) is a raw material that bakery product manufacturers are increasingly interested in with its fiber, natural sugar and phenolic compound content. While it contributes color, aroma and nutritional value in bread, cakes, biscuits and gluten-free products, it also significantly changes the behavior of the dough.
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