The popularity of gluten-free diet has risen since celebrities and athletes adopted it as a way to keep fit and healthy. However, what exactly is gluten-free, and why would more and more people choose to keep gluten-free foods?
What is Gluten?
Gluten is a group of proteins in cereal grains like, barley, wheat and rye, that make dough elastic. The distinction between hard flour, soft flour and whole purpose flour is the gluten level. However, gluten cannot be completely digested by a small number of people. These poor fellows will have intestinal problems such as diarrhea, flatulence, constipation or allergic reactions. This kind of allergy called gluten intolerance, an autoimmune disease known as celiac disease. Research showed that about 1% of human population has such disease and they must avoid consuming gluten. Therefore, gluten-free foods were designed mainly to replace gluten with fruits and vegetables, beans, potatoes, eggs, rice, and etc.
Gluten-free Delicacies
First thing first. gluten-free diet will replace bread and noodles with rice, potatoes, yams and other gluten-free starch resources gains. Secondly, vegetables and eggs are also convenient choices.
Here are some tasty delicacies without gluten.
Gluten-free Arancini Made by HM-588
Arancini contains rice, corn, minced meat, cheese and vegetables, which are rolled into balls and wrapped in gluten-free dough and bread crumbs.
Gluten-free Scotch Egg Made by HM-588
Scotch eggs are traditional homemade in the UK. Gluten-free Scotch eggs used almond flour, bean powder, pure rice flour instead of wheat flour to wrap up minced meat and the boiled egg.
P.S. Choose your sauces and dressing carefully, for they could’ve contain gluten ingredients.
Expanding Market of Gluten-Free Foods
Gluten-free has been widely recommended in medication by media recently. Since 2010, global gluten-free foods market has increased and reached USD $ 3.73 billion in 2019. What’s more?It was expected to expand significantly in the next 5 years. Food suppliers and international brands such as, Pizza Hut, Nestlé and Pepperidge Farm, introduced gluten-free pizzas, cereals and cookies. It is the high time to seize the opportunity to make profit in gluten-free foods market.
HM-588 is a multifunctional filling and forming machine developed by Hundred Machinery. In order to meet the needs of different production needs, the patented design allowed users to adjust the vertical position of the shutter. This unique arrangement created skins with equal thickness. Therefore, the product will be evenly wrapped, creating better texture. Additionally, the angle design, and the unique extruding system can reduce the residue of materials in the machine. Extruding the filling smoothly, the screw and the extruders are motioned by independent motors to control the rotation speed, reduce excessive squeezing of the material. Such design reduced the damage to the dough and raw materials, helping retain the original taste of the ingredients. Attaching HM-588 with optional accessories like, double filling feeder, jam feeder, solid filling feeder, cutter, rounder and moulder, can produce all kinds of gluten-free foods.
Now you know the past and future of gluten-free food, in the next article, we will take a step closer to unraveling the 3 myths of gluten free diets.