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Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour

Unbleached Bread Flour

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Contaminants · 4

1 at/over limit
From lab tests of this product’s family
Gold Medal white wheat flour
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium32 ppbof 5 ppb
Over the limit — 6.4×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: All-Purpose Flour
ArsenicNDof 10 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: All-Purpose Flour
LeadNDof 5 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: All-Purpose Flour
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: All-Purpose Flour

Ingredients · 7

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Common questions

Is Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour healthy?

Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour scores 26/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Gold Medal white wheat flour. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour?

Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour lists 7 ingredients, starting with Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate and Riboflavin. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour?

Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour is NOVA group 1: unprocessed or minimally processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour compare to other baking ingredients?

At 26/100 Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour scores worse than most baking ingredients we have scored. A higher-scoring option in baking ingredients is King Arthur Baking Company Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour at 100/100.

Is Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour organic?

Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour is not certified organic in our data.

Has Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Enriched white wheat flour (all-purpose, bread, Wondra); conventional) with the other products in its family, Gold Medal white wheat flour, and 1 product in its family has been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour contain heavy metals?

Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected cadmium at 32 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in All-Purpose Flour. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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