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Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by undersuit on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:46PM (#8513013)
> No chemicals are added

To be pedantic, chemicals are added to fortified and enriched flour... perfectly harmless chemicals that were lost in the milling process.

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Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by mudetroit on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:17PM (#8513129)
Being even more pedantic, fortified and enriched flour is normally created because the base product was bleached, not because of milling.
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Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by undersuit on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:25PM (#8517957)
The removal of the wheat germ is the primary reason for re-adding the nutrients, without the germ, and the bran, you just have a large amount of starch in the endosperm.
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