Holds them together, while retaining texture, "stretchiness", and sometimes flavor.

Gluten is the protein in wheat, and to a lesser extent rye, which gives dough the property that holds gas when it rises. This sticky elastic substance is essential for making satisfactory leavened bread.

It is actually the egg and milk in the pancake batter that holds it together. The milks lactose reacts chemically with the flour and many other ingredients and creates gluten, which hardens the pancake batter and holds it together.

No. Parsnips do not have gluten. They are a vegetable, so therefore they do not have gluten.

Allergic to gluten - alérgico al gluten