Whether it's making pancakes for dinner, a roux for dinnertime gravy, or a cake for dessert, there is one staple no kitchen should be without... flour. Trader Joe’s's Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour is exactly that, nothing more. And while simple, as with all Trader Joe’s's products, this one has a story to tell. It begins as organically grown wheat from U.S. farms. That wheat is milled to a fine consistency that's great for all your culinary needs (thus, All-Purpose).

Unlike much mass-market flour, though, this one isn't bleached and highly processed—ever notice "enriched" on the packaging for flour? It's only "enriched" with vitamins and minerals because heavily processing and bleaching the flour to make it oh-so-white strips all the naturally occurring vitamins and minerals out. Ours is just milled, packed into paper sacks, and sent to Trader Joe’s's. A simple story, but a riveting one nonetheless.