Wheat Gluten

Wheat gluten can refer to:

  • The gluten found in wheat, a sticky substance composed of the proteins gliadin and glutenin
  • Wheat gluten (food), a food prepared from these proteins, such as seitan or wheatmeat

Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or gluten:

    “[Tobacco] is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.... The cultivation of wheat is the reverse in every circumstance.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)