Gluten Free Grains, nuts, beans and seeds

There are many naturally gluten free grains, seeds, pulses and nuts available, though some you may have never seen or heard of before!

Rice and corn (maize) do not contain gluten and are safe to use in their purest form. Beware things like corn flakes breakfast cereals though, they often have malt flavouring making them unsafe for a gluten free diet. Something that may catch you out is glutinous rice, it does not contain gluten.

How many of the gluten free grains and starches below have you tried? They are all gluten free and can be ground into gluten free flour or cooked and eaten. For more information on each one click on the links.

• Almond flour low carb alternative to wheat flour
• Amaranth (extremely nutritious)
• Arrowroot (great as a thickener for soups and sauces)
• Buckwheat (not a form or wheat, despite its name)
• Millet (not just bird feed!)
• Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah)
• Tapioca (used for more than that horrible pudding you ate at school!)
• Chickpeas or garbanzo beans (ground into a flour called Gram)
• Lentils
• Carob ( a sweet flour is made from the ground bean pods rather than the beans themselves)
• Coconut flour
• Corn or maize
• Job's tears can be used as a substitute for pearl barley
• Soy
• Sesame
• Sunflower seeds
• Sweet Chestnuts
• Teff (a really tiny grain, very nutritious)
• Sorghum or milo
• Potato (yes it can be made into a flour-like starch)

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