What is gluten?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Pain of Christmas Beads
Gluten is commonly found in bread. It naturally occurs in wheat, which is usually the foundation for flour that bread is made out of. And it's actually made up of two types of proteins: gliadin and gluten in. So a good analogy for these proteins would be like the amino acids are the beads, those repeating units. When they get crumpled up and they start to fold in on themselves, that's like your protein.
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