Meaning & use
unbleached flour
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Meaning
noununcountabletechnical
Flour that has not been chemically treated to make it whiter.
Grammar: Uncountable: use 'some', 'a lot of', or 'a bag of', not 'a' or 'an'.
Patterns
- a bag of unbleached flour
- made with unbleached flour
This bread recipe calls for unbleached flour rather than the regular white kind.
She keeps a large bag of unbleached flour in the pantry for weekend baking.
Unbleached flour may look slightly off-white, which is normal.
Common combinations
- a bag of unbleached flour
- He bought a bag of unbleached flour at the health food store.
- made with unbleached flour
- These cookies are made with unbleached flour and brown sugar.
- substitute unbleached flour for
- You can substitute unbleached flour for bleached flour in most recipes.
- unbleached all-purpose flour
- The recipe specifies unbleached all-purpose flour.
Synonyms and how they differ
- unbromated flour
- A more technical term that means the flour has not been treated with certain chemicals; often used on labels.
Opposites
Word family
- bleached adjective
- Treated with chemicals to become whiter, as in bleached flour.
- flour noun
- Powder made from grain, used in baking.
Commonly confused: unbleached flour or whole wheat flour?
unbleached flour vs whole wheat flour
This is made from the entire grain and is darker and heavier; unbleached flour is usually white flour that has simply not been whitened.
Practice
The recipe says to use ______ flour, so don't buy the bleached kind.
Choose one answer.
'Unbleached' is the correct adjective meaning not chemically whitened. 'Bleach' is a verb or noun and would reverse the meaning.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “unbleached flour”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.