substitutes
Flour substitutes
Out of flour? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to flour in flavor space. Sugar is closest at 61%.
- 01Sugar61% flavor match
- 02Yeast61% flavor match
- 03Pastry57% flavor match
- 04Cream55% flavor match
- 05Meringue52% flavor match
- 06Shortening52% flavor match
- 07Nougat51% flavor match
- 08Cocoa Powder48% flavor match
Cooking with flour?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like flour, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to flour in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.