WordNet
n. a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative [syn: sugar]
Usage examples of "refined sugar".
The same applies to most of the food we eat---white bread with all the roughage removed, refined sugar with all the goodness machined out of it, pasteurized milk which has had most of the vitamins boiled away, everything overcooked and denaturized.
In 1926-7, no less than fourteen factories were handling the Beet crops, mostly in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, producing large quantities of white refined sugar.
There is something perfect and ironic about it, this land which I loved producing refined sugar.
Contrary to the claims of organized medicine, both the greed-corrupted Western variety and the spiritually smug Eastern brand, refined sugar did not make Corky hyperkinetic.
They never despoil their bodies with high-fat foods, refined sugar, and caffeine.
And I really don't quite understand your lack of support for that, given that I'm not taking any drugs, I'm eating no refined sugar of grains .
I had this wild-eyed football coach who preached that the worst enemies a young man could have were cigarettes, booze, fried food, refined sugar and girls.
Also meat, dairy products, tobacco, coffee, tea, chocolate, refined sugar, recreational drugs of any kind, competitive sports, and most great literature.