Leaveners & Thickeners — Cooking & Baking — Gluten-Free

Gluten-Free Leaveners & Thickeners

Arm & Hammer Baking Soda

The standard of purity. For baking, cleaning and deodorizing. Soothing softer skin.

Double Active Baking Powder

Double Active Baking Powder releases carbon dioxide when exposed to moisture and heat, causing doughs and batters to rise. It is all natural and contains no aluminum.

Corn Starch is a dense powder obtained from the endosperm portion of corn. It is commonly used as a thickener for sauces, puddings, and such. It tends to form lumps so it is usually mixed with a small amount of liquid to make a paste before using it. Cornstarch is also used in Oriental breading mixtures.

Tapioca Flour

Also known as tapioca starch, tapioca flour is a gluten-free baking ingredient and an ideal thickening agent. Use tapioca for thickening a wide variety of baked goods, sauces, and desserts.

Arrowroot Powder

Arrowroot powder is similar to corn starch. Used primarily in cooking and baking. It has no taste and is often used a thickener.

Potato Starch

Potato Starch is used as a thickener for sauces, soups, and stews. Potato starch tolerates higher temperatures than cornstarch when used as a thickener. It's a natural way to add moistness to many baked goods.

Yeast

Active dry yeast is necessity to many baked goods. Will help make all your baked products rise.

Gluten Free Nutritional Yeast

Nutritional yeast is grown on enriched purified cane and beet molasses under carefully controlled conditions. With the addition of vitamin B12, it is an ideal vegetarian support formula and has an appealing cheese flavor. It can be sprinkled over popcorn or salads, added to juice, cereal, smoothies, gravies, soups or casseroles, or used to make sandwich spreads.

Gluten Free Xanthan Gum

Use Gluten Free Xanthan Gum to add thickness and volume to bread and other gluten-free baked goods. This is a popular thickener among customers with allergies to gluten.

Gluten Free Guar Gum

Guar Gum is a white flour-like substance made from an East Indian seed. Use small amounts as a thickener, binder, and volume enhancer.

We are Certified Gluten-Free by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO). The GFCO certification meets more stringent requirements for gluten-free products than federal guidelines. Certification assures that the product contains less than 10ppm gluten (5ppm gliadin). No testing method is available that measures to zero.

Our beloved grandfather, Poppy Sol, started this business in an open-air market. Three generations later, we’re still bringing smiles to our customers' faces.

“My package arrived today! It was such a fun box, not many boxes make me smile when they get delivered to my front door... but this box did! So fun and cute! Even the pectin was in very cute packaging. Thanks for a great product. I will be back !! ”

— Christine, Baldwinville, MA May 21, 2013

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Our commitment to gluten-free products

While we’ve always sold naturally gluten-free products, we’ve gone a step farther to offer an even wider range of trusted, affordable, and certified gluten-free products.

We analyzed ingredients, vetted suppliers, and got facility certificates ensuring non-contamination of ingredients and production aids.
We completely segregated our production lines to eliminate any possibility of cross-contamination.
We established policies and procedures to ensure compliance and randomly test products in our gluten-free production room.
Not only do we voluntarily comply with USDA federal guidelines, but we’re also certified by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization.
We show the GF logo on each product page that is gluten-free.