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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white flour

Most cereals are loaded with sugars and use white flour from refined grains, which strips them of high-quality fiber.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026

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

So I kept things classic: white flour, white sugar, buttermilk — the quiet chorus of pastry fundamentals.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

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.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

Mamá rushed in, wiping her hands on her apron, which was covered with white flour.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez