Wheat gluten can refer to:
- The gluten found in wheat, a sticky substance composed of the proteins gliadin and glutenin
- Wheat gluten (food), a food prepared from these proteins, such as seitan or wheatmeat
Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or gluten:
“[Tobacco] is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.... The cultivation of wheat is the reverse in every circumstance.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)