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Home›Health and Fitness›Nutrition›Baking With Almond Flour

Baking With Almond Flour

By Jennifer Dages
August 20, 2013
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Almond flour or meal is made from whole almonds. Blanched almond meal is where the outer husks are removed and then the almonds are grown into flour. Regular almond meal is ground roasted almonds with the husks so it is not as fine.

Benefits of Almond Flour

Almond flour is high in the fatty acids that are needed in the body. It is also high in protein and low in carbohydrates. It bakes up rather nicely in a variety of baked goods if you need to avoid grains.

Baking with Almond flour

This flour loves eggs and will need them to keep the baked goods together. If you or someone you are baking for cannot have eggs then it will need flax meal and chia seeds to hold this together.

Some of my favorite blogs for recipes made with almond meal are:

  • Real Sustenance
  • Elena's Pantry

Dangers of Too Much Almond Flour

Be careful with almond flour. Too much will upset the fatty acid balance as almonds and nuts are high in omega 6's. We need a balance of omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids so too much nuts in the form of almonds, almond meal or flour, and almond milk can easily cause an imbalance of omega 6's especially if you are avoiding grains.

Lauren of Empowered Sustenance wrote an article back in April where she expressed some very strong cautions against using almond flour regularly in baking. Her reasons were as follows:

  • Using almonds in a flour form affects our sense of how much we are really using and it is very easy to get a much larger amount of almonds that we would eat.
  • Almond flour is high in Omega 6 fatty acids and that can slow the metabolism and cause inflammation as well as lead to other causes.
  • The fats in almonds and its flour are not heat stable so the fats oxidize and release free radicals, something we don't want.
  • If a person has an issue with oxalates, almond flour is very high in them and can cause much more trouble for that person.

Her recommendation and mine: Use almond flour in moderation. It has a place but don't overdo. I recommend coconut flour over almond flour much of the time as these same issues don't exist with coconut flour.

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Jennifer Dages
Jennifer Dages
Jennifer is a happily married homeschooling mother of 4 who lives in small town Pennsylvania.She blogs at The Entwife's Journal and at Purposeful Nutrition.She is also an RN who is working to build a health business through blogging, speaking, and health coaching.
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4 comments

  1. Trisha Eldridge Gilkerson 24 August, 2013 at 21:42 Log in to Reply

    I absolutely love almond flour, but I know that for the reasons you mentioned above I probably do eat it too much. Some of my tastiest treats are from almond flour. I’ve been experimenting more and more with almond/coconut flour combos. Thanks for linking up on Wellness Wednesday! 🙂

  2. Wellness Wednesday: August's Awesome Posts 28 August, 2013 at 04:53 Log in to Reply

    […] Baking with Almond Flour […]

  3. Health Benefits of Eating Walnuts 17 September, 2013 at 21:20 Log in to Reply

    […] In fact they have 2x as many grams as almonds. The only nut higher is pine nuts. As I wrote in the post on almond flour a few weeks ago, the omega6/omega 3 balance is something we do need to be aware […]

  4. Effie J. Sorg 14 June, 2017 at 04:48 Log in to Reply

    love anything with almonds in. Thanks for the serviceable article 🙂

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