Graham flour food shops, or directly from a flour mill that has experience making it. A substitute for it would be a mix of unbleached white flour and wheat middlings; this was a common substitute prior to and after the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, but the FDA gradually established standards and eliminated imitations from the market. Graham flour is named after Sylvester Graham (1794–1851), an early advocate for dietary reform. Graham despised the discarding of nutrients such as germ and bran when making flour for white bread, and believed that using all of the grain in
Maida flour Maida flour Maida is a white flour from the Indian subcontinent. Finely milled without any bran, refined, and bleached, it closely resembles cake flour. In Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh maida is made from tapioca from cassava roots. Maida is used extensively for making fast foods, baked goods such as pastries, bread, several varieties of sweets, and traditional flatbreads. Owing to this wide variety of uses, it is sometimes labeled and marketed as "all-purpose flour", though it is different from all-purpose flour as commonly understood in the US. Maida is made from the endosperm and it is developed from (the starchy