0 the outer covering of grain that is separated when making white flour. Bran is added to other foods because it contains a lot of the fibre needed for a healthy body:
1 the outer covering of grain that is separated when making white flour and is valued as a food for its fiber:
Beetles were maintained on wheat bran, and small pieces of potato were added to the cultures on a regular basis.
Modulation of mucosal cell proliferation in the intestine of rats fed with a wheat bran diet.
Austrian mills usually mix all their by-products and market them as 'bran'.
Each grain sample is ground in a mill until all bran has been removed and the endosperm has been reduced to flour.
One-third of the respondents reported that they were using industrial by-products such as wheat bran and oilseed cake to a limited extent.
Beetles were maintained on wheat bran supplemented every few days with small pieces of potato.
However, the quantity of agro-industrial byproducts - wheat bran, cottonseed cake, cottonseed hulls, ready mixed concentrates and bread - tended to increase in the winter 1995/96.
Twenty four hours later the apple/egg mixture was replaced by bran.