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  • If I remember correctly, at least the less-refined forms of agave extract primarily contain inulin, which also sounds like GI distress waiting to happen.

    Food trends from Expo West | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • On the less-refined end of the spectrum, we found (through our guidebook) a fantastic barbecue place amid the franchise strips of suburban Mt. Pleasant.

    Charleston With the Kids 2008

  • This is indeed a refined and artificial kind of art, and cannot have corresponded very closely either with the reality or even the ideals of life in twelfth-century Provençal courts (there was a less-refined but also less-admired form in which the two lovers wake up in bed in the morning).

    From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra Rosen, Charles 2006

  • Despite a bit of an anti-Burberry backlash in the U.K. because of its popularity with a less-refined group of middle class Brits, the brand is more popular than ever globally.

    Lladro's Yacht Louis Vuitton 2005 worldwide... 2006

  • The brighteners provided blinding-white highlights and also made the production of highlights cheaper, by allowing the use of less-refined paper pulp as a base.

    Too Much of a Good Thing 2003

  • The brighteners provided blinding-white highlights and also made the production of highlights cheaper, by allowing the use of less-refined paper pulp as a base.

    Too Much of a Good Thing 2003

  • Except my mom doesn't have any granulated sugar at home, just some organic less-refined stuff from Trader Joe's I had bought when we made creme brulee.

    Archive 2005-08-01 anne 2005

  • Except my mom doesn't have any granulated sugar at home, just some organic less-refined stuff from Trader Joe's I had bought when we made creme brulee.

    Why I'll gladly pay $1.50 for one of these... anne 2005

  • “You, Dr. John, and every man of a less-refined mould than he, must feel for him a sort of admiring affection, such as Mars and the coarser deities may be supposed to have borne the young, graceful Apollo.”

    Villette 2003

  • In the eastern Oaxaca Valley, many local residents distill the juice to make a less-refined alcoholic beverage, mescal, which is traded throughout the valley and beyond.

    Mexico's Wonder Plant 2002

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