Quinoa Flour

part of: Quinoa

Quinoa flour is a pale, slightly creamy flour with a distinctive earthy, nutty flavour. It’s milled from whole quinoa seeds and retains the grain’s protein content, making it popular in gluten-free and high-protein baking.

On its own, quinoa flour can taste slightly bitter or grassy, so it’s usually blended with other flours — such as rice flour or tapioca starch — rather than used as a sole replacement for wheat flour. It works well in pancakes, flatbreads, muffins, and as a thickener in sauces.

Available in most Australian supermarkets and health food stores, quinoa flour has become a pantry staple for those avoiding gluten or looking to add variety to their baking.

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How it's made

Quinoa seeds are thoroughly washed to remove their natural saponin coating, which has a bitter taste. The cleaned seeds are dried and then milled into a fine flour using stone or steel grinding equipment. Some producers toast the grain lightly before milling to reduce bitterness and develop a more rounded flavour.

Nutrition (per 100g)

Energy 376kcal
Protein 11.9g
Carbs 63.2g
Fat 6.6g
Fibre 6.3g Sugar 0g
Mass Distribution

1 RACC is about 30 g — roughly 110 kcal of this.

What it costs the planet (per kilo)

Carbon ≈1.57kg
Freshwater ≈250.05L
Land ≈4.18m²

≈ Estimated — worked out from a category-typical value further up its supply chain. Where this comes from →

Where it comes from

Made from
Quinoa, grain

In the kitchen

Used as

gluten-free baking flour

Goes well with
lemon honey apple cinnamon chocolate
Classic dishes
  • Quinoa Flour Pancakes
  • Gluten-Free Muffins
  • Quinoa Bread

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Where this data comes from

Nutrition data from

USDA

How it was calculated

Analytical (Atwater Imputation)

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