What are the alternative names for wheat?

Wheat masquerades under many alternative names in foods, drinks, and beauty products. The list below is not exhaustive, but will give you an idea of all the various words you may need to avoid.

Look out for:

  • Abyssinian hard
  • Atta
  • Binder or binding
  • Bran
  • Bulgur
  • Cake flour
  • Cereal
  • Cereal binders/binding
  • Cereal protein
  • Couscous
  • Dinkel
  • Durum
  • Edible starch
  • Einkhorm
  • Emmer
  • Enriched flour
  • Farina
  • Farro/Farro
  • Filler
  • Flour
  • Food starch
  • Frumento
  • Fu
  • Graham flour
  • Groats
  • Gum base
  • Hydrolysed wheat protein
  • Kamut
  • Maida
  • Manna
  • Matzo/Matzoh/Matzah
  • Modified food starch
  • Modified starch
  • Rusk
  • Seitan
  • Semolina
  • Sooji/Suji
  • Special edible starch
  • Spelt
  • Starch
  • Thickener or thickening
  • Triticale
  • Triticum
  • Wheat
  • ... and finally, anything with the word 'wheat' in it (except buckwheat which is a member of the rhubarb family)

If I've missed anything out let me know. I also have a blog called Wheat by any other name.