Food Category Details

Flours (06.2.1)

Description:
Flour is produced from the milling of grain, cereals and tubers (e.g., cassava). Includes flour pastes for bread and flour confectionery, flour for bread, pastries, noodles and pasta, and flour mixes (physical mixtures of flours from different cereal or grain sources, which are different from mixes for bakery goods (dry mixes containing flour and other ingredients, categories 07.1.6 (mixes for ordinary bakery wares) and 07.2.3 (mixes for fine bakery wares)). Examples include: durum wheat flour, self-rising flour, enriched flour, instantized flour, corn flour, corn meal, bran, farina, roasted soybean flour (kinako), konjac flour (devil’s tongue jelly powder, konnayaku-ko), and maida (refined wheat flour).

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifcally indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.