Wheat gluten (food) A piece of seitan.
Commercially packaged seitan. Wheat gluten, also called seitan (Japanese: セイタン), wheat meat, mock duck, gluten meat, or simply gluten, is a food made from gluten, the main protein of wheat. It is made by washing wheat flour dough with water until all the starch granules have been removed, leaving the sticky insoluble gluten as an elastic mass which is then cooked before being eaten.[1] Wheat gluten is an alternative to soybean-based meat substitutes such as tofu. Some types of wheat gluten have a chewy or stringy texture that resembles meat more than other substitutes. Wheat gluten has historically been popular in the cuisines of China, Japan and other East and Southeast Asian nations. Canned fried wheat gluten ("vegetarian mock duck"), product of Taiwan. Fried wheat gluten ("vegetarian mock duck"), product of Taiwan. There are three primary Chinese forms of wheat gluten: Japanese dry baked wheat gluten "Fu" (Yaki-Fu, 焼き麩) looks like bread.
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