Veal is slightly less digestible than beef or mutton, on account of the amount of slippery gelatin in and among its fibres; but if well cooked and well chewed, it is wholesome.
In what ways may food be made less digestible and wholesome by cooking?
What vegetables contain starch, what sugar, and what digestible protein?
The claims of many of them are greatly exaggerated, for they contain no more nourishment, or in no more digestible form, than the same weight of bread; and they cost from two to five times as much.
If these are got rid of by brisk boiling in at least two waters, then cabbage is a fairly wholesome and digestible dish for the average stomach.
The most useful and digestible fat meats are bacon and ham, as the dried, salted, and usually smoked, meat of the pig is called.
The question of diet must then be limited to food that is perfectly digestible by the traveller.
On the other hand, those which are grown quickly on rich, mellow ground are attractive in appearance, delicate in flavour, and as digestible as any salad in common use.
Rice is one of the most abundantly used and most digestible of all the cereals.
The chestnut is a nutritious food, but owing to the starch it contains, is moredigestible when cooked.
Frying, which is the cooking of food in hot fat, is a method not to be recommended--Unlike all the other food elements, fat is rendered less digestible by cooking.
Bread might be perfectly cooked at this temperature by steam, but it would lack that most digestible portion of the loaf, the crust.
The digestible food elements are often grouped, according to their chemical composition, into three classes; vis.
Rice prepared in this manner is undoubtedly more digestible than when cooked without browning.
If, then, it be desirable to obtain from the legumes the largest amount of nutriment and in the most digestible form, they must be prepared in some manner so as to reject the skins.
Most fragments of this character are more digestible served cold as a relish, or utilized for soups and stews, than compounded into fancy dishes requiring to be fried and highly seasoned or served with rich sauces.
This aids in a more rapid fixing of the air-cells and likewise gives more crust, which is the sweetest and most digestiblepart of the bread.
Such toast is sometimes called zwieback (twice baked), and when prepared from good whole-wheat bread, is one of the most nourishing and digestible of foods.
Nuts present their protein in combination with so large a proportion of easily digestible fat that there is comparatively little danger of getting an excess.
The fats of nuts, their chief food principle, are the most digestible of all forms of fat.
Having a low melting point they are far moredigestible than most animal fats.
It is absolutely digestible and assimilable, and is triturated with the finest milk sugar.
This law discovered by Engelmann, requires that these cell-foods must be administered in digestible and assimilable forms so that the cells will be attracted by the chemical reaction, which may be of a positive or a negative character.
There are no special prescriptions for these, regarding diet, except that easily digestible food must be eaten.
All minerals contained therein are organized and in a perfectly digestible and assimilable form.
To be recommended are light farinaceous dishes with milk, vegetables, fruit and all easilydigestible foods.
It is the most delicate and at the same time the most digestible and assimilable cell-food obtainable.
To make the whole product asdigestible and assimilable as possible, I use the best material known, that is, Taka and Malt diastase.
For cow feed it would have about three-fourths the amount of digestible nutrients as green alfalfa, but would have an added value on account of its succulency.
Green corn, for example, contains only about one per cent of digestible protein and 11.
Yet those who have traveled abroad remember that some of the lightest, most palatable, and most digestible preparations of meat have come from this dangerous source.
In such cases, experiment alone can decide which are the most digestible articles of food.
Lightly-cooked mutton is moredigestible than beef, pork, or lamb, and roast beef is more digestible than boiled.
In the case of adults as well as children the milk is made more digestible by diluting it with barley- or rice-water or by adding transformed farinaceous food to milk in the form of Mellin's food and other foods of this class.
Raw beef is not as digestible as when the tendinous and aponeurotic structures of the muscular fibre have been softened, disintegrated, and converted into the soluble and easily-digested form of gelatin by cooking.
The diet, for instance, of bodily labor should consist largely of digestible nitrogenous food, and meat, par excellence, should be increased in proportion as muscular exercise is increased.
Later, the gases are developed very readily by the decomposition of even the most digestible articles of food, the mucus, which is the product of the catarrh, acting as a ferment.
In cases where there is gastric catarrh the milk can be made more digestible by adding an equal quantity of barley-water or rice-water.
The process of cooking food produces certain well-known chemical changes in alimentary substances which render them more digestiblethan in the uncooked state.
In general terms, this should consist of a moderate amount of albuminoid food of the most digestible kind, and of farinaceous food and fats in an acceptable and digestible form.
In many cases, indeed, ill-nourished children and dyspeptics digest raw beef thus comminuted better than cooked, and it is a matter of observation that steamed and underdone roast meats are more digestible than when submitted to greater heat.
It may be doubted, indeed, whether we require at any time more phosphorus for brain- and nerve-tissue than can be found in such food as contains digestible phosphatic salts.
It contains in an easily digestible form all the constituents necessary to the rapidly-growing young animal.
In milk, therefore, we find a most easily digestible and most highly nutritious food for such cases.
They are, therefore, not very digestible in themselves.
Fried potatoes, as they are very generally served, are almost as digestible as rocks, but not so tempting in all their grease-dripping beauty as the latter.
Two weeks later they met again over viands of a more digestible nature than those which lent interest to the first dinner, and told the tales which follow.
You must have eaten a particularly digestible meal.
The milk of the she-ass is lighter and more digestible than that of any other animal, and in former times was in great request for invalids.
Entire prevention is secured by warm, dry shelters, and nutritious, digestible food.
For the look alone they had better not be boiled at all, and almost as well for the use, as in this crude state they are scarcely digestible by the strongest stomach.
Spinach is one of the most digestible of the entire group, and is much eaten in all parts of the world.
A sufficient amount of sleep, and a proper quantity of digestible and nutritious food, thoroughly cooked and carefully masticated, are the things which above all others are most important for the maintenance of health.
The idea that starches are more digestible when eaten raw could be easily refuted by any intelligent farm-boy who recalls one or more sad experiences from over-indulgence in raw sweet potatoes.
It may be confidently asserted that well-cooked and perfectly dry wheat-breads are to be regarded as being generally the most digestible of all bread-stuffs.
Within recent years quacks have disseminated very widely throughout this country the error that foods are more digestible when raw.
Cauliflower consists of masses of the somewhat modified flowers of a plant closely related to the cabbage, and is, when properly prepared, palatable, and perhaps somewhat more digestible than cabbage.
Among easily digestible vegetables asparagus probably takes front rank, and in addition to this has the merit of being exceedingly agreeable to the taste.
The only difficulty is to get them in a digestible form.
Acid may make a curd solid, but not until it has cut out a large share of the goodness of the curd, and the cheese resulting will be about as digestible as so much putty.
Stewart, gives the digestibility of a few of the more common foods: Digestible In 100 lbs.
Having a high melting point, they are far more digestible than animal fats of any sort.
The fats of nuts, their leading food principle, are the most digestible of all forms of fat.
When done, lay them on a dish before the fire, in order that all fat and the fish-oil may drain from them; with this precaution, fried herrings will be found more digestible than otherwise they would be.
Nut butter is more digestible than kernels unless the latter are thoroughly chewed.
The problem of a well-balanced ration consists in supplying daily the right proportion of nutritive elements in agreeable and digestible form.
Flour--Graham and entire wheat flours contain more protein than patent flour, but this is offset by the fact that it is not so digestible as the protein of standard flour.
The enterprising companies that may put them out can easily publish tables to show the digestible nutrients in each and indubitable testimony can be furnished to prove the excellence of any of them as stock feed.
The high value of Alfalfa is due to the amount of protein that it contains; to the large percentage of protein that is digestible and the palatability of Alfalfa.
The leaves of wormwood are used in salad to make it moredigestible and heighten the flavour.
XXI-249] With this mixture they covered the boiled and widely opened mussels, and the guests found it impossible to satiate themselves with this dish, so much more digestible and nourishing than oysters.
This is clear when we recall the fact that the Agricultural Experiment Stations have demonstrated that 33 pounds ofdigestible foodstuffs are required to make one pound of beef.
Even the milk supply will necessarily be limited, for we are compelled to feed the cow 5 pounds ofdigestible foodstuffs to obtain 1 pound of water-free food in the form of milk.
The annual production of ore from a given district is roughly a measure of that ore's ability to meet the competitive market, and therefore, of its actual immediate or past availability.
The coöperative effort of the Illinois State Survey and private interests, cited on page 306, is a good illustration of this procedure.
Hence the importance of maintaining export markets for kerosene.
Popularly, an iron ore is an iron ore, and there is little realization of its really great complexity of composition and the difficulty of determining what is or is not a commercial ore.
It is often the case that the practical man has in his mind a rather elaborate assortment of geologic hypotheses, based on his individual experience, which make the so-called theories of the geologist seem conservative in comparison.
If this be true, the only reasons why the southern hemisphere is not productive are the relatively small size of the land areas and the lack of exploration to date.
The question of practical concern to us, therefore, is not one of total iron ore reserves, but one of degrees of availability of different ores to the markets which focus our requirements for iron.
It seems likely, however, that arrangements will also be made to continue the export of ore from the Lorraine field down the Rhine to the principal German smelting centers.
A large part of the world's tungsten production in the past has been won from such deposits.
France needs the German coal for coking as badly as Germany needs the French iron ore.
The result of war efforts was a very large development of domestic supplies of practically all the ferro-alloy minerals; but in no case, with the exceptions noted above, did these prove sufficient to meet the total requirements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digestible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: edible; nourishing; nutritious
