Vital Wheat Gluten – What You Need to Know
Vital wheat gluten is a concentrated wheat protein. If you hydrate wheat flour, thus activating the gluten, and then process the resulting mixture to remove everything but the gluten, you are left with vital wheat gluten. The flour that you use on a daily basis contains both gluten and starch. In vital wheat gluten the starches have all been washed away as part of the processing. Vital Wheat Gluten is often used in a recipe to improve the...