white flour

American  

[wahyt flou^uhr, flou-er, hwahyt] / ˈwaɪt ˌflaʊər, ˌflaʊ ər, ˈʰwaɪt /

noun

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

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white flour British  

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

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Example Sentences

Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

People who’ve had bariatric surgery sometimes continue to overindulge in highly processed foods, those made from white flour, sugar, butter, and the like, even if it means later enduring vomiting and diarrhea.

From Scientific American • Sep. 11, 2023

Modern processed grains like white rice and white flour as well as many ultraprocessed foods like some sugary breakfast cereals, packaged snacks and juices have removed these fibers.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

You couldn’t buy flour, white flour, any more without taking four times the quantity of brown flour.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck