Vital Wheat gluten is a meat-like, vegetarian food product, sometimescalled seitan, mock duck, gluten meat, or wheat meat.
Vital Wheat gluten is made from the gluten, or protein portion, of wheat,and used as a meat substitute, often to imitate the flavor and texture of duck,but also as a substitute for other poultry, pork, beef, and even seafood.
Wheat gluten is produced by rinsing wheat flour dough in water until thestarch separates from the gluten and washes away.
Wheat gluten(Vital wheat gluten) could be used as natural additive to beadded into flour to produce wheat powder for bread, needle, dumpling and finedried noodles.
Items | Standards |
Apperance | Light yellow powder |
Protein(N 5.7 on dry basis) | ≥ 75% |
Ash | ≤1.0 |
Moisture | ≤9.0 |
Water Absorption (on dry basis) | ≥150 |
E.Coli | Absent in 5g |
Salmonella | Absent in 25g |