Bob's Red Mill Xanthan Gum, 8-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6)

by Bob's Red Mill

Product Features

• Case of six 8-ounce packages (48 total ounces)
• Made from 100% all-natural xanthan gum
• An excellent source of fiber
• Adds volume and viscosity to baked goods
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

Premium quality. Xanthan Gum is made from the outer layer of a tiny, inactive bacterium called Xanthomonas campestris. It is an excellent all purpose thickener for dressings, gravies and sauces. Its unique ability to hold small particles of food together makes it the ideal substitute for gluten in gluten-free baking. Most recipes call for only 1 or 2 teaspoons, so it goes a long away. Gluten free. Bob's Red Mill products labeled gluten free are batch tested in our quality control laboratory. We use an Elisa gluten assay test to determine if a product is gluten free. All natural.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EDK7ZQ
• UPC: 039978025555
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,920 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must-have, March 1, 2011

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J. Loscheider "No one knows I'm a radical" (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Xanthan Gum, 8-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

Xantham gum is essential to any gluten-free baking. You can use guar gum but it just isn't as good. This is top quality product, and a little goes a long way. Most recipes only call for a teaspoon or two. An order of 6 8-ounce packages should last an average household two years (unless you bake bread twice a week, then it's only a year maybe :-) ).

One caveat - this is a very fine dust and it is best handled carefully... unless you like a pricey haze of xantham around your kitchen.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good for Egg Sensitivity/Vegan Baking, July 26, 2010

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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Xanthan Gum, 8-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

Gluten is not a concern for us, however, we use many vegan recipes which are also accommodate gluten free sensitivities. Sometimes I use gluten/flour with those vegan recipes. This product makes egg-free cookies and other baked goods truly excellent.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Xanthan Gum, January 14, 2008

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Sandy "WR Gma" (Wood River, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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