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Saturday, June 07, 2008

TRS Sorghum flour NOT gluten free



I'm always on the lookout for new gluten free flours to use in baking, but have never been able to track down sorghum flour in the UK (also known as juwar or jowar flour).

I was somewhat elated therefore, to find TRS Juwar flour, the only ingredient of which is sorghum.

Now because this isn't marked 'gluten free', I ran a Haven gluten test on it, and I'm glad I did. The image above shows the result. This indicates between 100 and 200 parts per million (ppm) of gluten; more than enough to make a lot of celiacs ill.

I can only imagine that the gluten contamination comes about in the same way that much oat contamination does - by wheat growing close by the sorghum getting into the sorghum field, then being milled along with the sorghum grain.

So I'm still on the lookout for proper gluten free sorghum flour in the UK - if anyone knows where I can get it, drop me a line, or leave a comment. I'll be a happy baker if you do :)

posted by Gluten Free Food Freak at 8:49 AM

4 Comments:

  • Hi Lyndsay! Do you know Jalpur Millers' Juwar flour? http://jalpurmillersonline.com/proddetail.php?catid=127&prdid=5679. It's the only I found where live, in Portugal, so if it doesn't pass the test I won't be able to make recipes that ask for Sorghum. Thank you.

    By Blogger m., at 10:33 AM  

  • The best site in the uk is www.dietaryneedsdirect.co.uk they sell certified gluten free grains. However, I have a feeling that they don't sell sorghum. I wonder if there is a problem with the way it's grown in that case? It's commonly used in India which is why you can often get it from Asian grocers, but there's no way of knowing unless you test it as you did.

    A good substitute for sorghum would be equal parts of millet, amaranth and white teff flour. All low GI healthy grains.

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    By Blogger Naomi Devlin, at 11:41 AM  

  • To the first comment, I'm afraid I've never come across that make of Sorghum. And thanks for the flour tips Naomi, I'll check that out.

    By Blogger Gluten Free Food Freak, at 5:50 PM  

  • Oh, and to your point about contamination of Sorghum Naomi, the Proceli brand (fantastic croissants) use Sorghum flour quite widely in their products, although they call it something else. They are Spanish so I wonder if they use a source we can't get here. You know, I might just contact them :-)

    By Blogger Gluten Free Food Freak, at 9:04 AM  

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