Definition of "white bread" []

• Bread made from finely ground, usually bleached wheat flour. See Regional Note at light bread. (noun)

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• "Another study, involving 65,000 women over a period of six years, demonstrated that indulging in processed foods, sugary soft drinks, and other fiberless items such as doughnuts, white rice, and white bread more than doubles the risk of diabetes."
• "Pubwiches: In England and Ireland, pub crawlers while away hours playing darts and ranting poetically, fueled by a simple but steady diet of bite-size sandwiches on buttered white bread piled up in baskets, eaten by the dozen."
• "Processed foods—no matter how fortified they are—are never a good choice, even if they are the best thing since stripped, immortally preserved white bread for the food industry."