Types of Flour: Almond, Chickpea, Coconut and Buckwheat Flour

Flour is not only wheat. This puzzle lists ten flours for baking and cooking: wheat and its ancient cousin spelt; rye and oat flour; and the gluten-free ones, rice, buckwheat, quinoa, almond, coconut and chickpea flour, popular with people who cannot eat gluten.

Wheat hides inside buckwheat too, but it also appears on its own. Quinoa is the only diagonal word.

Types of Flour Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 3 of the 10 read backwards. The longest word is Buckwheat, with 9 letters.

Almond: Almond flour, made from finely ground blanched almonds, used in gluten-free baking and macarons.
Buckwheat: Buckwheat flour, gluten-free and earthy, used for French galettes and Russian blini.
Chickpea: Chickpea flour, also called gram or besan flour, used for pakoras, socca and flatbreads.
Coconut: Coconut flour, made from dried coconut meat, very absorbent and high in fiber.
Oat: Oat flour, made by grinding oats, for pancakes, muffins and cookies.
Quinoa: Quinoa flour, gluten-free and high in protein, with a slightly bitter, nutty taste.
Rice: Rice flour, gluten-free, used for noodles, mochi and crisp batters.
Rye: Rye flour, dark and low in gluten, used for dense breads like pumpernickel.
Spelt: Spelt flour, from an ancient wheat with a nutty taste; it still contains gluten.
Wheat: Wheat flour, the most common flour, whose gluten makes bread rise.

How to Solve the Types of Flour Word Search

"Wheat" hides inside "buckwheat", but it also appears on its own, running down. "Quinoa" has the only Q and is the only diagonal word. "Chickpea" and "buckwheat" are the only words with a K; chickpea reads normally across.

Baking Science Activities With Flour

Sort the flours into those with gluten and those without.
Make the same pancake with two different flours and compare.
Ask students which plant each flour comes from: grain, nut, seed or legume.