Editing Flour (section)

==== Frequency of additives ====

All bleaching and maturing agents (with the possible exception of ascorbic acid) have been banned in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/breadflourguide.pdf|title= The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 – Guidance Notes|date= 1 June 2008|publisher= Food Standards Agency|access-date= 29 March 2012|archive-date= 9 December 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111209193220/http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/breadflourguide.pdf|url-status= live}}</ref>

Bromination of flour in the US has fallen out of favor, and while it is not yet actually banned anywhere, few retail flours available to the home baker are bromated anymore.

Many varieties of flour packaged specifically for commercial bakeries are still bromated. Retail bleached flour marketed to the home baker is now treated mostly with either peroxidation or chlorine gas. Current information from Pillsbury is that their varieties of bleached flour are treated both with benzoyl peroxide and chlorine gas. Gold Medal states that their bleached flour is treated either with benzoyl peroxide or chlorine gas, but no way exists to tell which process has been used when buying the flour at the grocery store.