Chapter 4.1

What is the major component in wheat flour?

Briefly describe the formation of gluten during dough formation.

What is the major component in pericarp / bran?

What is the major component in endosperm?

Choose the sequence of wheat flour processing.

• 
  cleaning - screening - tempering - milling - sieving 

• cleaning - screening - drying - milling - sieving 

• cleaning - screening - steeping - milling - sieving 

• cleaning - screening - refining - milling - sieving 

Name one gluten-free flour.

The lower the oil content, the longer the shelf life.

• True

• False

Breifly explain how to obtain wheat flour with different protein content.

What is the composition of self-rising flour?