Yeah, gluten (glue)...found in abundance in refined wheat flour.
It's "a protein composite found in foods processed from wheat, barley and rye. Gluten gives elasticity to dough, helping it rise and keep its shape and often gives the final product a chewy texture."
Most processed foods contain a lot of it. That and tons of sugar are probably a large reason why Americans are so...well, large.
I appreciate your response but I am still curious.
Should I serve her something with NO flour of any sort in it? I mean, come on, I am serving a shrimp platter. Surely shrimp has no gluten? I am not frying, just steamed shrimp, peeled and de-veined.
Hummous? No gluten, right?
Clementines, in top season right now as I type, surely they have no gluten?
The little crab cakes are breaded so I understand there’s probably gluten.
Also, gluten isn’t fattening, is it?
I appreciate your response but I am still curious.
Should I serve her something with NO flour of any sort in it? I mean, come on, I am serving a shrimp platter. Surely shrimp has no gluten? I am not frying, just steamed shrimp, peeled and de-veined.
Hummous? No gluten, right?
Clementines, in top season right now as I type, surely they have no gluten?
The little crab cakes are breaded so I understand there’s probably gluten.
Also, gluten isn’t fattening, is it?
...without it, munchies may taste good but the message from the stomach is that you actually ate nothing (most snacks are puffed and poofed yet are really small portions) much like cotton candy.
If anything gluten has helped to prevent obesity by making pigs pay top dollar for puffy poofy food lower in calories than what the porky appetites thought ingested.
It’s the availiability of free welfare food, the smug entitlement gloating of others being forced to pay for the maintenance of your fat lazy ass, and depression triggered glutony that makes the pig.