bran
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- noun
- /bræn/
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salvado
- Mrs. Babbidge smiled as she treated her first-grade Sunday school class to carrot juice and bran biscuits.
- wheat bran
- oat bran
- rice bran
Like the endosperm of a wheat kernel separate from the bran and the, you know, the germ.
- Like the endosperm of a wheat kernel separate from the bran and the, you know, the germ.
- If you think about flour, a grain of of wheat is endosperm, all starch wrapped in this bran layer.
- So when you look at the rice kernel and you see almost like a chipped tooth, that's the rice that has been milled of its bran.
- I like cereal, like bran flakes with raisins in it.
- OK, guess what brand is it like fucking oat bran or some shit?
- It's like brown hot bran flanks.
- So it's corn, canola, cotton seed, soy, sunflower, safflower, rice bran and grape seed.
- I love Shea butter and I think it's got banana leaf extract, oat bran extract.
- Better, better start pounding some bran.
- Yeah, they do like Raisin Bran and like fucking bullshit.
Examples
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I'd rather hear you have to eat bran muffins to get things moving in the morning.
Blog text (33) -
You got cold cuts, bagels, coffee, lox, celery tonic and bran muffins.
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You shall fast a week with bran and water.
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I read in my Prevention magazine that we need bran to get our fiber.
Fiction book (2001) -
And then in the outer layer, that skin, we often call it the bran that contains a lot of fibre.
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A bran muffin in the morning would help that.
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But basically in the processing of say rice or wheat, the first step, the refining, removes the bran from the outside.
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Cardboard boxes stood in corners, boxes full of bran flakes, beans, and eggs.
Fiction book (1991) -
Then it was time for the midday feeding: oats, bran, and nuts that needed to be mixed, measured, and weighed.
Fiction book (1995) -
Eating a bran muffin for breakfast provides a good source of dietary fiber.
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Etymology
Bran comes from old words that meant the 'outer layer' or 'husk' of a grain, the rough bits left when flour is made. That's why bran today means the hard outer layers of cereal grains, often used as a source of fiber.