From which is deduced the fact, that ordinary flesh is about three times as rich in myosin or gluten as ordinary wheaten bread, or, in other words, a pound of beefsteak is as nutritious as three pounds of wheaten bread.
I eat on an average about a dozen meals a week, each less in amount, though more nutritious than formerly.
A highly nutritious diet and plenty of it caused a very large preponderance of females.
When first brought to the surface by the divers they are not infrequently found to contain pearls imbedded in the palatable and nutritious meat.
The top of the palm yields a vegetable which is used as food and when boiled is nutritious and palatable, resembling our cauliflower.
The enormous productiveness of the plant and its nutritious character assure to the humble classes an abundant subsistence.
From the unripe fruit, dried in the sun, a palatable and nutritious flour is made.
They feed at long intervals upon a certain gelatinous substance, of such a nutritiouspower that the smallest quantity is sufficient to support them for a long period.
They are so nutritious and purified that in our present condition we can have no adequate idea of their properties.
The prairie is coated with a rich green grass, perhaps the most nutritious in the world; and I am told that the winter is never so severe or the grass so scarce that a poor horse will not fatten in the space of one month.
In the tame and wild rabbit the change is of an opposite nature, and probably results from the nutritious food given to the tame rabbit.
We have reason to suspect that an habitual excess of highly-nutritious food, or an excess relatively to the wear and tear of the organisation from exercise, is a powerful exciting cause of variability.
The cause of the reduced lungs in highly-bred animals which take little exercise is obvious; and perhaps the liver may be affected by the nutritious and artificial food on which they largely subsist.
The corresponding step in the assimilation of food is what is technically called digestion, which is the separation of the nutritious from the waste elements, or the conversion of food into chyme, preparatory to assimilation.
The old grass around our camp is abundant; but having been so much washed by the rains, and consequently exhausted of its nutritious qualities, the animals refused to eat it.
The herds of cattle are scattered over the plain,--some of them grazing upon the brown but nutritious grass; others sheltering themselves from the sun under the wide-spreading branches of the oaks.
A very nutritious and delicious broth is made by thickening this with cornstarch or arrowroot, cooking for ten minutes and then adding three ounces of milk, or one ounce and a half of thin cream, to a half pint of broth.
The shortening of the intestine follows in consequence of the change to more nutritious diet.
Darlington says that, in the last war with Great Britain, the soldiers on the Canada frontier found this, in times of scarcity of forage, a grateful and nutritiousfood for their horses.
Flour prepared from the bark, by drying perfectly and grinding, and mixed with milk, like arrowroot, is a wholesome and nutritious food for infants and invalids.
This strong partiality to animal diet tends to render its flesh less savory than that of the Carolina Rail whose food is principally the nutritious seeds of various kinds of grasses.
The fruit of the mistletoe is said to give them abundance of nutritious food during their entire stay.
The natives, though acquainted with the nutritious qualities of the plant, make little if any use of it.
The Fijians were unacquainted with the nutritious qualities of their sago palm (Sagus vitiensis) until Mr. Pritchard and Dr.
The white of the egg which constitutes the food of the chick, is shewn to be nutritious by our daily experience; besides the experiment of itsnutritious effects mentioned by Dr.
The glands and pores absorb nutritious particles by animal selection.
The nutritious quality of the liquid, which surrounds the fetus, appears from the following considerations.
No matter how nutritious the food may be that is taken into the stomach, no matter how perfect the processes of digestion and assimilation are, the blood cannot be vitalized without fresh air.
It is advertised with claims that will lead thoughtless physicians and a confiding public to depend on it in cases in which fresh air, hygienic surroundings and nutritious food are of prime importance.
With a plentiful supply of good water, and luxuriant and nutritious grasses, there is every required facility added.
In many parts cattle and horses are not housed throughout the winter, and so nutritious are the wild grasses that stock is marketed without having been fed any grain.
The nutritious matter of the grape, as in the apple, pear, or any similar product, is designed by Nature only to serve as the first nourishment of the future plant, the germ of which lies in it.
The general belief is, that this nutritious matter, and even the peculiar combination in which it is found in the fruit, has been made directly for the immediate use of man.
Each fruit contains the germ of a new plant, and a quantity of nutritious matter surrounding and developing that germ.
They will bring grocers’ bills from home, compare them, add them up, and discuss the question of economical and nutritious food.
If the supply of milk became short, the women gathered bulbs and roots of nutritiousproperties to eke out an existence.
It is considered very nutritious and strengthening, and takes the place of our roast beef for nutriment.
If they were as nutritious as ordinary mangels,” said I, “that would be no argument against them.
Usually, dry-farm crops are much more nutritious and therefore should command a higher price in the markets, or should be fed to stock in corresponding proportions and combinations.
Especially is the header straw of high feeding value, for it represents the upper and more nutritious ends of the stalks.
