Barley flour is a flour made from dried and ground barley. It has a mild, sweet, and slightly nutty flavor, and contains more gluten, fiber, and natural elements than many non-wheat flours. Barley flour can be used to replace some wheat flour in recipes for breads, biscuits, cookies, muffins, and pancakes.

 Barley flour can also be pregelatinized or malted. Pregelatinized barley flour has high absorbent properties and can be used as a thickener and binder. Malted barley flour can be used as a flavor supplement in malt loaves and as a diastatic supplement for bread flours that are low in natural diastatic activity.