Flour is Flour and all Four is created equal? Not necessarily! Flour has its own inherent properties that can make it very difficult to screen and/or separate. From removing the ash left in the flour after milling to make white bread flour to poorly ground rice flour which leaves partially ground pieces that peg (not blind) screens. Flour is one of the most widely used food ingredient and one ingredient that presents several challenges in ensuring it cleanliness. The food industry has been pushing forward with new technologies like exploding wheat in order to be able to produce cleaner more efficient bread flour to constant processing advancements to green initiatives. Why hasn’t the screening industry followed and kept up with these improvements. Well now it has!
