Thursday, September 22, 2011

Gluten Free Baking Items


  • Tapioca starch/flour
  • Potato flour
  • Potato starch
  • Cornstarch
  • Amaranth and amaranth flour
  • White rice flour
  • Brown fice flour
  • Rice bran
  • Sorghum flour
  • Buckwheat flour
  • Almond flour
  • Millet flour
  • Teff and Teff flour (teff can be used as a cereal)
  • Montina pure baking supplement and gluten-free blends
  • Quinoa and quinoa flour
  • Soy flour – though I do not recommend anyone use soy products, as they contain an element which reacts similar to estrogen.
  • Coconut flour
  • Oats and oat flour (only ones labeled gluten-free and pure) See Bob’s Red Mill and Cream Hill Estates
  • PrOatina by Montana Gluten-Free (some celiacs with an oat intolerance may tolerate their oat products)
  • Timtana (Timothy-grass)
  • Peanut flour
  • Chickpea flour
  • Fava bean flour
  • Garbanzo bean flour
  • Casava flour
  • Oat bran (only ones labeled gluten-free)
  • Corn meal (watch for cross contamination)
  • Flaxseed meal (mixed with hot water makes a great dairy-free egg replacer)
  • Xanthan gum (usually contains corn) See corn-free xanthan gum.
  • Guar gum
  • Arrowroot
  • Eggs (casein-free and dairy-free) I recommend organic eggs.
  • Expandex (modified tapiooa starch) – possibly chemically processed
  • Methyl cellulose (chemically modified cellulose) – often used as a thickener or gluten substitute in baked goods
  • Yeast (and some brewer’s yeast, but not when from beer)
  • Vanilla extract and vanilla flavoring (distilling removes all gluten, as is with alcohol)
  • Nestle’s chocolate morsels: milk chocolate and semi-sweet
  • Baking powder: Rumford’s, Clabber Girl
  • Baking Soda
  • Ener-G: Egg Replacer – (for those also dairy-free) Haven’t tried it myself.  Read reviews and suggestion here.
  • Egg white powder(alhumen / albumin) (El Peto Products has one that is gluten-free)
  • Hershey’s Cocoa – Hershey’s does publish a gluten-free list, as ingredients change often.
  • Tofu (plain)
  • Gelatin
  • Agar agar (natural gelatin substitute)
  • All cooking oils
  • Whey and whey proteins, but are not dairy-free
  • Betty Crocker’s Gluten-free Bisquick
  • extracts such as: vanilla, almond, etc.

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