flesh-forming

Those who find, or imagine they find, that this delicacy does not agree with them, might possibly arrive at another conclusion were a different mode of preparation adopted, or were the consumption of it accompanied with a full persuasion that the Mushroom is not merely delicious in flavour, but thoroughly wholesome, rich in flesh-forming constituents, and, for a vegetable, possessed of more than the average proportion of fat-formers and minerals.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

But being deficient in flesh-forming materials, it is unfit for an exclusive food, but is best used with milk, meat, and other foods richer in proteid substances.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

To explain how the constant waste of these substances may be supplied, a celebrated chemist observes that the albumen, gluten, caseine, and other nitrogenized principles of food, supply the animal with the materials requisite for the formation of muscle and cartilage; they are, therefore, called flesh-forming principles.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

The known deficiency of flesh-forming constituents naturally associates this vegetable with meat of various kinds, poultry, game and fish, and in this proper association the root is probably capable of superseding all other vegetable foods, bread alone excepted.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

The quantity of flesh-forming constituents is insignificant.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Barley contains about 7 per cent. of sugar, and its flesh-forming matter is in the form of casin the same as is found in cheese.

Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes

That which is slightly yellow is to be preferred to the white, as the latter is usually poorer than the former in mineral salts and flesh-forming substances.

Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes

In the manufacture of macaroni some of the bran is removed from the flour, but the meal left is still very rich in flesh-forming matter.

Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes

It is made from Italian wheat, which contains more flesh-forming matter than butcher's meat.

Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes

This Lichen contains starchy, heat-giving nourishment, about six parts of the same to one of flesh-forming food; therefore its jelly is found to be specially sustaining to persons suffering from pulmonary consumption, with an excessive waste of the bodily heat.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie