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white flour

[wahyt flouuhr, flou-er, hwahyt]

noun

  1. refined and often bleached wheat flour that has been processed to remove all or most of the bran and germ.



white flour

noun

  1. flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“The tonka bean powder can be used like any other dry spice, for example it might be mixed with white flour to make a tonka-flavoured bread, mixed with icing sugar to make a tonka-flavoured macaroon, or mixed with all spice to flavour a bread and butter pudding,” the guide explained.

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Electrospinning using a starch-rich ingredient such as white flour is more challenging than using pure starch, as the impurities -- the protein and cellulose -- make the mixture more viscous and unable to form fibres.

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The Western diet consists of high levels of refined carbohydrates -- foods processed in ways that typically remove much of their nutritional value, such as white flour, table sugar, and ingredients in many packaged snacks.

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White bread, sugary drinks, jams, sweets, white rice, white flour, crackers and fruit juice are examples of these foods.

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“I think that people who eat white flour, white rice, de-germinated corn — in other words, grains that have had part of their nutrients taken away — are coming up short,” Mr. Moore said in 2017 in an interview for an Oregon State University oral history.

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