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 is a fruit that comes from the legume family, not from gluten-containing grains such as wheat, barley, rye and oats; therefore, it does not contain gluten in its natural form. However, for celiacs and people with gluten sensitivity, the real question is not "is carob gluten-free?", but "is the carob product I have gluten-free?".
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