bran
(bræn )
uncountable noun
Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
...oat bran.
Fresh fruits and vegetables are important and so is bran.
Image of bran
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Collocations:
bran cereal oat bran rice bran wheat bran
Seven grams of fibre (0.25oz) roughly corresponds to a bowl of bran cereal, half a can of baked beans or two portions of fruit or vegetables.
Times, Sunday Times
Bran cereals are great for fibre but many are also very high in salt.
The Sun
High-fibre bran cereals, natural muesli and porridge.
The Sun
Boiled rice, fruit, sunflower oil, pure fruit juice, health foods, brown or granary bread, pulses, shellfish, bran cereals and salad were also linked to slightly higher mercury blood levels.
Times, Sunday Times
If gas presents a particularly difficult situation for you, try increasing the amount of oat bran you eat gradually over a longer period of time.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
While you're eating oat bran, the stools will be larger and softer.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
Similarly, the oat bran and niacin combination should be expected to produce significant and beneficial cholesterol lowering.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
But fibre is only part of oat bran's appeal nutritionally.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
For me, the best way has been using oat bran in baking muffins.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
I just get uncooked rice bran to eat,' he said with tears in his eyes.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Pour the rice bran oil over the hotplate to grease it.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Three diets were based on corn and soybean meal with 25% wheat middlings, rice bran and alfalfa meal respectively.
2018, 'Comparative digestibility of nutrients and amino acids in high-fiber diets fed to crossbred barrows of Duroc boars crossed with Berkshire×Jiaxing and Landrace×Yorkshire', Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
This variety uses fortified wheat flour and wheat bran.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The basal diet consisted of corn, hay, sunflower flour, barley grains, wheat bran and soy flour.
2014, 'Efficacy of clinoptilolite supplementation on milk yield and somatic cell count', Revista MVZ Cordoba
Both rhubarb and wheat bran contain phytates, substances that attach themselves to calcium, reducing the amount available to strengthen bones.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Translations:
Chinese: 糠
Japanese: ふすま 小麦外皮
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