Author: W. O. Atwater

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-11

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9780656308323

Excerpt from The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials, 1899 Until about the year 1880 those who wished to know about the chemical composition and nutritive values of food materials were compelled to depend upon analyses of European products and most of those analyses had been made in German laboratories. During the last two decades American investigations have accumulated and the results have been collated from time to time. Bulletin N o. 28 of this Office, entitled The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials, and issued in 1896, gave minimum, maximum, and average figures from a compila tion of the analyses of American food materials that were found on record up to July 1, 1895. Since that time the number of analyses of food materials has increased to such an extent that a revision of that bulletin seems desirable. The present bulletin includes American analyses of materials used as food by man, which the compilers have found on record up to January This table is intended to replace previous ones, and to serve as a standard of reference until it 'shall, in its turn, be replaced by a larger and more complete com pilation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.