Which Flour to Choose for AIP Baking? (2024)

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Which Flour to Choose for AIP Baking? ›

The main flours used in AIP baking are as follows: Cassava flour, Tapioca Starch, Coconut Flour, Tigernut Flour, and Arrowroot Starch. There are still a few others out there that I haven't yet tried like Plantain Flour, Water Chestnut Flour, and Sweet Potato Flour.

However, in baking, plantain is a great alternative to almond flour and coconut flour. I hate bananas but can handle plantains … this is the plantain flour I tried. Like cassava flour, plantain flour provides carbs and resistant starch, and is AIP-friendly.

Commercial baking powders all contain starch made from either grains or nightshades, both of which are out on AIP.

Popular (and delicious) paleo substitutes for wheat flour include almond flour, coconut flour and cassava flour.

Quinoa flour is made from quinoa — a gluten-free seed with a nutty flavor, ground into a fine powder. Quinoa flour is a good source of protein, fiber, iron, and unsaturated fat. Quinoa may be helpful for promoting digestive health, lowering inflammation, and reducing the overall risk of disease.

However, people with autoimmune disease so commonly develop food intolerance to nuts and seeds that they are eliminated initially on the Autoimmune Protocol.

Anti-Inflammatory Foods:

Whole grain and nut flours: whole grain flours, almond flour, coconut flour, chickpea flour, quinoa flour. Full-fat coconut milk, unsweetened almond milk, hemp milk. Beans and legumes. Honey or pure maple syrup.

Are bananas ok for autoimmune? ›

AIP diet food list. Examples of foods you can eat while on the AIP diet include: Vegetables that aren't nightshade vegetables like cucumbers, spinach, sweet potatoes and zucchini. Fresh fruits like apples, oranges, mangos, strawberries, bananas and blueberries.

An AIP diet avoids all processed foods, alcohol, additives, refined sugars, coffee, tea, oils, and certain medications. In the elimination phase, a person will also avoid foods such as grains, legumes, dairy, eggs, and nightshade vegetables, but they may reintroduce these later.

First, a list of AIP herbs and spices you probably already know and don't need much explanation. You can still use basil, bay leaves, chives, cilantro/coriander leaves, cinnamon, cloves, dill weed, garlic, ginger, onion powder, parsley, mints, marjoram, rosemary, sage, thyme, and vanilla bean.

The main flours used in AIP baking are as follows: Cassava flour, Tapioca Starch, Coconut Flour, Tigernut Flour, and Arrowroot Starch.

Almond flour is an excellent alternative to have in your kitchen cupboard. It's easy to find in shops and commonly used in plenty of sweet and savoury dishes, including brownies, pancakes, puddings, cakes, falafel and more. Made from ground blanched almonds, it's high in protein, rich in fibre and gluten-free.

Almond flour is one of the few keto flours that can be swapped 1-to-1 in place of traditional flour. Some recipes call for ¾ cup almond flour, though, since the higher fat content of almonds make the flour more dense. Almond meal: This type is made from whole almonds, skins and all, which makes it higher in fiber.

Chickpea Flour: *non AIP.

While the whole konjac root is AIP compliant, I have recently learned that many of these noodles are made using the isolated glucomannan fiber from konjac which, according to Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, can irritate the gut and throw off bacteria balance and thus not considered to be AIP compliant.

You should eliminate the following foods, drinks, and products: Grains, including wheat, oats, rice, amaranth, barley, buckwheat, bulger, corn, millet, quinoa, rye, sorghum, and spelt, and products made from grains such as pasta, bread, cereals, crackers. Legumes.