What is gluten?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Benefits of Gluten in Bread
There are other things besides just gluten in your dough, right? The gluten is like the background and then all the other stuff is thrown on to it. So we've got that long chain,. And that's a gluten in. And so it's this much longer chain like the longer string of beads. It makes it taste good. Okay. Now, so here's your fun fact. This is a complex polymer that has good or solubility like low, solubility in water. And it has a good elasticity, but it's still viscous. That's called viscoelasticity. Because of this, it's being used in biomaterials, like biofil
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