GF recipes CAN have a higher glycemic index (GI) depending on the flours used — Rice, potato and maize are quite starchy and have calorie / sugar
content than regular flours like whole wheat and oat flour.
It has a higher protein
content than regular flour, which helps create more gluten, typically best for baking yeast breads.
Combined with almond meal, which is naturally higher in oil
content than a regular flour, you get that nice thick mud cake texture.
Not exact matches
Whole wheat pastry
flour is ground from a softer wheat and has a lower gluten
content than regular whole wheat
flour.
In Europe most
flour is naturally lower in gluten (about 8 %)
than in North America (Canadian is about 13 % and American a little less) so I treat
regular whole wheat
flour like whole wheat pastry
flour, and if I'm making bread or something that benefits from higher gluten
content I look for «special» whole wheat
flour, which is higher in gluten, or I add a bit of vital wheat gluten.