foods from which nutrienta substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life; a source of nourishment, especially a nourishing ingredient in a food; a food or other substance that provides energy or building material for the survival and growth of a living organism content has been removed; these types of foods include white flour, white rice, white sugar, white pasta; highly processed foods extracted of nutrients needed for growth and/or health; manufactured and refined from one statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India to another such as whole grains that end up as refined powders (flours)
