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Flour, Bleached
Level 3 — ContestedIn Winter's Dictionary
Flour, Bleached is a bleaching agent — Flour bleached with potassium bromate and chlorine dioxide gas
What it does
Flour bleached with potassium bromate and chlorine dioxide gas
Where you'll see it
Bleached white flour
What the research says
Bleaching destroys small amounts of flour's naturally occurring vitamin E.
Sources
- A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): Bleaching destroys small amounts of the flour's naturally occurring vitamin E