10 Best Gluten-Free Flours in the UK 2024 (Doves Farm, Schär and More)

Doves Farm is one of the leading suppliers of gluten-free baking products. A family-owned company, the owners have been gluten-free since the 70s, so they really know what they’re talking about! This plain flour is also Kosher (KLBD and Parve) and is made from a blend of naturally gluten-free ingredients such as rice, potato, tapioca and buckwheat.

Sold in handy 1 kg bags or even larger 16 or 25 kg sacks for the super-keen cook, this is an excellent staple for your pantry and is versatile enough to use in everything from cakes to coating meat and fish or thickening sauces. If you only stock one gluten-free flour, then this is the one to choose.

Asda’s own Free From brand of gluten-free self raising offers good value for money and a good basic baking flour for anyone avoiding wheat and gluten. Perfect for baking cakes, biscuits and pancakes, it can be replaced for ordinary self-raising flour in many applications.

If you’re dipping your toe into the world of gluten-free flour and need a self-raising blend to keep on hand for when the urge for cake strikes, this is an excellent choice.

As a great alternative to high-gluten strong bread flour, this gluten-free blend from Doves Farm contains rice, tapioca, potato and buckwheat flours. Specially blended to create a nutritious, high-fibre flour for bread making, this is ideal for making malty brown gluten-free loaves.

Doves Farm gluten-free brown bread flour is also Kosher certified and approved by Coeliac UK. If you’re keen to try making breads, rolls and pizzas – and let’s be honest, who isn’t? – then make sure you grab a bag of this flour! 

Glebe Farm is a family-owned farming business based in Cambridgeshire. Boasting a range of quality gluten-free products, they stock everything from gluten-free oat milk (from oats grown in the region) to breakfast cereals and baking mixes and, of course, gluten-free flours.

This light gluten-free self-raising flour lends itself well to a variety of baking applications and produces fluffy bakes to satisfy your need for cake. It’s a very good quality flour blend that performs well and can be replaced for ordinary flour on a like-for-like basis.

Popular in Indian, Middle-Eastern and African cuisine, gram flour is nutritious, cheap and readily available. This offering from KTC is very finely ground and great for savoury dishes or as a coating for pakora. The handy-sized bag is fine for most homes, although larger bags are also available for higher-consumption households.

This is a fantastic option for those who make or want to make more international dishes. Some gluten-free bread blends can also use chickpea flour due to its higher protein content, so it’s a good one to have in stock if you fancy trying your hand at blending your own gluten-free flours.

This versatile bag of flour claims to be suitable for making everything from bread and cakes to savoury dishes and more. From gluten-free giant Schär, this is an excellent basic flour to have on hand due to its versatility.

If you don’t get through a lot of flour, then this might be a good option for you as it comes in smaller 500 g bags. It is more pricey than some blends though, and if you cook and bake with flour often then this is probably not the best deal for you.

Lucy Bee are renowned for their coconut products, ranging from sugar to oil and more. This raw coconut flour is Fair Trade and organic and is created using cold-pressing methods to preserve its nutritional value. 

A gorgeously-soft flour, it's lovely in crumbles, cakes and brownies but can also be used in savoury dishes such as stews, casseroles and as crumb coatings. This is a great brand to try out even if you’ve never tried coconut flour before, and if eating organic and buying fair trade is important to you it's even better. 

This pack of flour comes from Spanish almonds of the highest quality. Containing no preservatives or other nasties, the almonds are ethically sourced and choc-ful of proteins, fibre and valuable nutrients. Perfect for baking as well as in savoury meals such as curries, this almond flour is a useful way to add high-value nutrition into your cooking.

Although this flour is considerably more expensive than most of our picks, the nutritional profile is far superior to that of gluten-free flour blends, and it is available in smaller bags if you prefer. This is a great choice for most households, although nut allergy sufferers will obviously need to give it a miss!

Bob’s Red Mill has a vast array of healthy and nutritious gluten-free flours and this flour is no exception. Sorghum is highly nutritious and full of protein, fibre and iron. Although also high in carbohydrates, these are in a useful complex form so that they are released gradually, preventing glucose spikes.

If you haven’t tried sorghum flour yet or you're a beginner baker, this introductory sized-pack would be perfect. It’s ideal for all sorts of sweet and savoury uses and is a good way to sneak in some good nutrition and healthy fibre! Again, it can be a difficult one to get hold of, but it’s worth looking out for.

This flour comes in 500 g boxes that are great if you just need the occasional spoonful for thickening sauces or satisfying the odd craving for baked goodies. Full of wholesome, organic wholegrain goodness, it’s a great alternative to ordinary flour. Use it in puddings, cakes, biscuits and more!

Amisa's flour is made from finely milling the whole rice grain, retaining more of its nutritional content. If you’re after a simple, wholesome gluten-free flour that can be used in both savoury and sweet cooking, this is a good option. It is, however, not one of the cheaper alternatives and it can be hard to get hold of.