Four is wheat flour, generally used to make steamed buns, dumplings, noodles, steamed buns, pastries, etc. Glutinous rice flour is a rice variety made from the seeds of glutinous rice. It is also called glutinous rice flour and is the raw material for glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao. The two are different in appearance, water solubility, feel, and viscosity.

The differences are as follows:

1. Appearance

The flour looks darker and rougher; glutinous rice flour, especially the so-called water-milled glutinous rice flour, is whiter.

2. Feel

The flour is rough and feels astringent; the glutinous rice flour feels smooth and soft.

3. Water solubility

The flour dough is elastic and cannot be dissolved in water, leaving gluten behind. The glutinous rice balls are loose and brittle. After washing, they completely fall apart and sink to the bottom of the water like starch.

4. Stickiness

Flour can be easily made into dough with cold water and has a chewy texture; while glutinous rice flour can be scalded partially with boiling water and then added with raw glutinous rice flour and kneaded together to form a dough. It is also easy to crack and has obvious lack of stickiness; this is due to the difference in starch structure between the two types of wheat and rice.

Extended information

Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin and starch, etc. It is rich in nutrients and is warm and strong. food. Another name for glutinous rice flour: glutinous rice noodles. Water-milled glutinous rice flour is famous for its softness, toughness, and fragrant glutinousness. It can be used to make food such as glutinous rice dumplings, Yuanxiao, and family snacks.

Glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians; it has the effects of replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and relieving sweating. It is effective against cold spleen and stomach, poor appetite, abdominal distension, and diarrhea. It has a certain relieving effect; glutinous rice has astringent effect and has a good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweats.

The "flour" we often refer to refers to wheat flour, which is flour ground from wheat. Names such as "high-gluten wheat flour" refer to what we usually call flour.

Wheat flour is divided into special flour (such as bread flour, dumpling flour, biscuit flour, etc.), general-purpose flour (such as standard flour, enriched flour), and nutritionally fortified flour (such as calcium-enhanced flour, enriched flour, etc.) according to its performance and use. Iron flour, "7 1" nutritional fortified flour, etc.).

According to precision, it is divided into special first-class flour, special second-class flour, standard flour, ordinary flour, etc.; according to the strength of gluten, it is divided into high-gluten flour, medium-gluten flour and low-gluten flour.

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