Canadian yellow mustard serves a wide range of applications, including dry milling for flour, wet milling for mustard pastes, and whole ground seed for spice mixes, meat and other food products. Different yellow mustard varieties are grown in Canada. There is a range of mucilage contents available, allowing processors to blend varieties to reach a standard viscosity. Dry-milled flour is used for condiments and as an ingredient in compounded products. The extracted seed hulls are a valuable by-product, used for thickening and stabilization in mustard and other prepared foods.
Yellow mustard can also be ground for use as an ingredient in the prepared meat industry.
Heat-inactivated whole ground seed is used as an ingredient in many food products providing colour, flavour, viscosity and emulsification. Processing Mustard is meticulously cleaned to specific buyer's stringent standards. A significant portion is processed into condiments as well as mustard flour, which is an ingredient in many sauces and dressings. Nutrition Mustard is an oilseed and therefore high in fat and protein.