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Well, good morning and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's new

midweek segment called Ask a Nutritionist. My name is Leah Kleintrote. I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian with nutritional weight and wellness. And on today's show, I will be answering

two related nutrition questions we've received from our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners in the last few

weeks. So these listeners wrote the first question, what is the most nutritious flour? And then the

second question we received that was related to this is do we have any suggestions for gluten-free

flowers? So great questions. I think this is going to be interesting to a lot of

the listeners. And it's something that comes up when I counsel clients or like just related questions like

these. So I think these are really great. Let's start off with that first question about what is the

most nutritious flour. I think there's a lot of ways that we could

tackle this question. I'm going to try to keep it pretty simple, pretty streamlined and just

give some of my thoughts around this. And so just know there's a lot of nuance behind this,

but just a couple of thoughts. I think usually when people hear that term flower, and again, so we're talking about

like flour that you bake with, so FL, oh, you are and not like the springtime flowers that are

hopefully around the corner here. But when you think about flour, I think most people are thinking

about regular old wheat flour. So we're going to start there. When you think about wheat flour and even think about

like your typical all-purpose wheat flour. This is, this flower is made by taking the whole wheat

kernel. And what you do is you strip out the outer brand layer and you take out the little kind of fatty middle of it called the germ.

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