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8. Hemp Flour

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It’s far too dense to be used as a baking flour on its own, but when combined with other flours, it brings a nutty, rich flavor and a big nutritional wallop.

Adding the flour to wheat, barley, soy, or other flours in a ratio of one part hemp flour to four parts another flour deepens the texture, resulting in a heavier, chewier bread. It is gluten-free, so hemp flour doesn’t rise on its own. Adding it to baked goods such as bread, muffins, waffles, and the like provides a nice serving of fiber, offers lots of omega essential fatty acids, and increases the digestible protein to boot.

In fact, this flour is second only to soy, with 33% protein to soy’s slightly bigger 35%. It’s a bit easier to digest than soy, however, because of the way those proteins are structured. It also offers antioxidants, calcium, magnesium, and other healthy goodies like zinc and manganese.

Hemp flour may be happily consumed by sufferers of celiac disease or those with gluten intolerance without ill effect. There are actually no food allergies that have been connected to hemp at all. That means it’s also fine for folks with intolerance to nuts, sugar, or other triggers.