Is self-raising flour fattening?

jeanette1976 | 17:23 Sun 07th Jan 2007 | Food & Drink

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And what about cornflour?

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They both contain calories if that is what you mean.

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I was just wondering because I use quite a lot when I'm thickening gravy... and with self-raising flour, I used about 3 heaped tbs for my sun-dried tomato pancakes.

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Both types of flour are practically pure carbohydrate (both about 90%) and therefore have almost the same calorie content as each other, weight for weight. Cornflour has 360 Calories per 100 g, self raising flour, 354, according to calorie-count.com. Practically all food is "fattening", in the sense that it yields energy when digested, it just depends how much you consume.

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