As a way to present gluten-free substitutes to those that can’t eat gluten, many flours, equivalent to rice, corn and sorghum, have been used. To date, wheat flour itself has not.
It is because wheat flour is normally synonymous with gluten. Nonetheless, now the Spanish biotech start-up Bread Free has produced gluten-free wheat flour, and they’re the primary biotech firm to take action.
An alternate for coeliacs
Bread Free’s flour is a substitute for lots of the gluten-free flours accessible available on the market, having the advantages of those flours. “Our product maintains all the organoleptic properties of typical wheat flour, making it appropriate for people with coeliac illness,” Juan Garrido, co-founder of Bread Free, instructed FoodNavigator. Organoleptic properties are sensory qualities of a product.
The corporate goals to ease worth pressures on coeliacs, whose reliance on gluten-free merchandise has the potential to show expensive. Lately, shortages of elements equivalent to rice flour have put a pressure on gluten-free costs.
Nonetheless, the corporate claims, as a result of its manufacturing course of is just like that of abnormal wheat flour, these worth constraints don’t have an effect on it.
That is additionally excellent news concerning its dietary content material. “The benefit of our product is that it maintains the dietary qualities of wheat. Subsequently, coeliac people can nonetheless take pleasure in its advantages and comply with a wholesome and protected weight loss program,” Garrido instructed us.
Wheat flour offers a sure elasticity that’s troublesome to duplicate with out the presence of gluten. Nonetheless, in accordance with Garrido, it isn’t crucial to interchange gluten in Bread Free’s flour.
Dietary high quality of gluten-free merchandise
Analysis in 2022 revealed that regardless of widespread uptake of gluten-free merchandise for well being causes, gluten-free merchandise with wheat flour substitutes are sometimes much less wholesome than their gluten-containing counterparts.
“Gluten is the element chargeable for elasticity of merchandise, because it acts as a binding agent. With our course of it isn’t crucial to interchange it, since it’s nonetheless current, however beneath 10 ppm (elements per million), which doesn’t hurt the coeliac particular person whereas complying with meals laws,” he instructed us.
In accordance with the corporate, merchandise made with its flour maintains the flavour and texture of abnormal baked items made with wheat flour.
Eradicating the gluten
To take away the gluten from the flour, Bread Free makes use of biotechnology. Nonetheless, it isn’t, Garrido harassed, genetically modified wheat.
The corporate additionally makes use of AI to make the method extra environment friendly. “The function of synthetic intelligence is to optimize our industrial course of and conduct ongoing analyses on the manufacturing chain to make sure product security and cut back prices,” Garrido instructed us.
The corporate goals to launch this 12 months, first in Spain after which to the entire of Europe.
