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The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
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The European carrion crow.
Examples of bran in a Sentence
The bran is used for cattle-food and poultices, and the grain in the distillery.
Throughout other parts bullocks are fed on pasture land, and also in stables on nourishing and succulent feed such as hay, Indian corn fodder, Indian corn silage, turnips, carrots, mangels, ground oats, barley, peas, Indian corn, rye, bran and linseed oil cake.
It flourishes best in small tanks and ponds, in which the water is constantly changing and does not freeze; in such localities, and with a full supply of food, which consists of weeds, crumbs of bread, bran, worms, small crustaceans and insects, it attains to a length of from 6 to 12 in., breeding readily, sometimes at different times of the same year.
Semolina and bran are manufactured in the district.
In the 3rd century Bronwen (white bosom), daughter of Bran Fendigaid (the blessed), is said to have stayed here, perhaps by force; and there was here a tower, called Twr Bronwen, and replaced about A.D.
Bran also appears as a historical name, Latinized as Brennus.
In addition, wheat bran may be added to the diet.
Cereal by-products - wheat chaff, maize gluten feed, rice bran.
Sieve potato, soya flours and salt and then stir in the soya bran and oil.
Bran, an insoluble fiber, reduces the absorption of calcium enough to cause urinary calcium to fall.
Apparently an early version of Bran the Blessed, (not to be confused with Brian Blessed) and clearly cognate with Beli.
When all three parts of the grain (the germ, bran, and endosperm) are present in their original proportions after milling, the grain is still a whole grain.
Brown rice, white rice and rice bran that are guaranteed pesticide free.
The addition of wheat bran or other fiber may be suggested to decrease symptoms.
At Little Dunkeld, almost opposite to Dunkeld, the Bran joins the Tay, after a run of 11 m.
There is also organic muesli, bran ond cereals.
From a full sack of corn, about 80% would be turned into flour and 20% into bran.
Both oats and oat bran contain high amounts of soluble fiber.
The health supplement market is loaded with products containing bran and psyllium husks that are notably high in the insoluble form of fiber.
Also be aware that many "high-fiber" cereals that boast whole grains have been fortified further with insoluble types of fiber such as bran.
In some cases, certain types of fiber may actually be too rough and can cause discomfort as well, so be aware of unusual symptoms when you add foods like bran or nuts to your diet.
By using Charles in the Alpha and Omega series, I've moved my storytelling closer to Bran than I had originally intended to, so readers can peak behind the curtain a bit.
Bring up the fog machine, and cue the scary music, it's Bran!
It's loaded up with raw honey and rice bran oil (a powerful antioxidant) and boasts a lightweight consistency.
It's packed with nourishing ingredients like shea butter and rice bran extract, while its L-Carnosine and green tea extract content enhance its abilities to fight off free radicals.
The place probably owes its Celtic name of Llan-ym-ddyffri (the church amid the waters) to the proximity of Llandingat church to the streams of the Towy, Bran and Gwydderig.
On an average, £3,000,000 to £4,000,000 worth of wheat, about £i,000,000 worth of rye, and over £1,500,000 worth of barley are exported annually, besides oats, flax, linseed, rape seed, oilcake, bran, flour, vegetable oils, raw wool and caviare.
Otherwise the chief articles of Constantinople's export trade consist of refuse and waste materials, sheep's wool (called Kassab bashi) and skins from the slaughter-houses (in 1903 about 3,coo,000 skins were exported, mostly to America), horns, hoofs, goat and horse hair, guts, bones, rags, bran, old iron, &c., and finally dogs' excrements, called in trade ` pure,' a Constantinople speciality, which is used in preparing leather for ladies' gloves.
Condla Caem son of Conn Cetchathach was carried in a boat of crystal by a fairy maiden to the land of youth, and among other mortals who went thither Bran, son of Febal, and Ossian are the most famous.
A double handful of clean chaff, or of bran mixed with the oats in the manger, prevents a greedy horse from swallowing a considerable proportion whole.
Large grain elevators have been built, and a new commercial town has grown up. Besides cereals, which amount to 69% of the whole, the exports consist of petroleum and petroleum waste, oilcake, linseed, timber, bran, millet seed, wool, potash, zinc ore and liquorice, the total annual value ranging between 32 and 54 millions sterling.
As if eating bran would make you healthier anyway.
Perhaps the evidence for simply adding cereal bran to your breakfast is less convincing than that for adopting a broader fiber diet.
She had tried various self help measures such as including bran in her diet which had only aggravated her symptoms.
When purchased they should be kept in an open top box or tray, containing bran.
If your symptoms do not improve after 3-4 weeks of taking bran, then stop or reduce it.
Also, raw bran can simply clog up the gut, making constipation more likely.
Corn bran is the best, followed by wheat bran, and then oat bran.
The other would have driven a flour dresser that would have separated the whole meal into bran and flour.
Brown flour - produced through the inclusion of bran along with the white endosperm.
White flour - made from the starchy endosperm only; bran and germ are removed as co-products.
Children can be enticed to eat more fiber by sprinkling bran flakes over their yogurt or other dessert.
This is a really political one called Geoffrey Ingram, we are being very flippant tonight, we have been eating lots of bran!
A warm bran mash is always welcomed on cold winter mornings.
For the record, I haven't had a bran muffin, ice cream or a diet soft drink in years.
The best fiber supplements are psyllium made from ground-up psyllium seeds or rice bran.
Lots of prizes were won on the day from the bran tub, including special editions of just 20 pieces!
So Merlin preserves his diabolic origin; Arthur his mystic coming and his mystic passing; while Gawain, and after him Lancelot, journey across the river, as the Irish hero Bran had done before them to the island of fair women - the Celtic vision of the realm of death.
Whole grains and products made with whole grains, such as whole-wheat bread, multigrain rolls, or oat bran, all contain varying amounts of protein.
Food sources that include only the bran are not whole-grain products, and products promoted as "high fiber" are not always whole-grain, either.