This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Food Materials (As Purchased) | Refuse | Protein | Carbohydrates | Ash | Fuel Value per lb. | ||
Vegetable Food - continued. | % | % | % | % | % | % | Calories |
10.0 | 76.0 | .5 | .4 | 12.7 | .4 | 230 | |
Persimmons, edible portion | 66.1 | .8 | .7 | 31.5 | .9 | 550 | |
Raspberries | 85.8 | 1.0 | 12.6 | .6 | 220 | ||
Strawberries | 5.0 | 85.9 | .9 | .6 | 7.0 | .6 | 150 |
59.4 | 37.5 | .2 | .1 | 2.7 | .1 | 50 | |
Fruits. dried: | |||||||
28.1 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 66.1 | 2.0 | 1,185 | ||
Apricots | 29.4 | 4.7 | 1.0 | 62.5 | 2.4 | 1,125 | |
Dates | 10.0 | 13.8 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 70.6 | 1.2 | 1,275 |
Figs | 18.8 | 4.3 | .3 | 74.2 | 2.4 | 1,280 | |
Raisins | 10.0 | 13.1 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 68.5 | 3.1 | 1,265 |
Nuts: | |||||||
45.0 | 2.7 | 11.5 | 30.2 | 9.5 | 1.1 | 1,515 | |
Brazil nuts | 49.6 | 2.6 | 8.6 | 33.7 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 1,485 |
Butternuts | 86.4 | .6 | 3.8 | 8.3 | .5 | .4 | 385 |
Chestnuts, fresh | 16.0 | 37.8 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 35.4 | 1.1 | 915 |
Chestnuts, dried | 24.0 | 4.5 | 8.1 | 5.3 | 56.4 | 1.7 | 1,385 |
Cocoanuts | al48.8 | 7.2 | 2.9 | 25.9 | 14.3 | .9 | 1,295 |
Cocoanuts, prepared | 3.5 | 6.3 | 57.4 | 31.5 | 1.3 | 2,865 | |
Filberts | 52.1 | 1.8 | 7.5 | 31.3 | 6.2 | . 1.1 | 1,430 |
Hickory nuts | 62.2 | 1.4 | 5.8 | 25.5 | 4.3 | .8 | 1,145 |
Pecans, polished | 53.2 | 1.4 | 5.2 | 33.3 | 6.2 | .7 | 1,465 |
Peanuts | 24.5 | 6.9 | 19.5 | 29.1 | 18.5 | 1.5 | 1,775 |
Pinon (Pinus edulis) | 40.6 | 2.0 | 8.7 | 36.8 | 10.2 | 1.7 | 1,730 |
Walnuts, black | 74.1 | .6 | 7.2 | 14.6 | 3.0 | .5 | 730 |
Walnuts. English | 58.1 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 26.6 | 6.8 | .6 | 1,250 |
Chocalate | 5.9 | 12.9 | 48.7 | 30.3 | 2.2 | 2,625 | |
Cocoa, powdered | 4.6 | 21.6 | 28.9 | 37.7 | 7.2 | 2,160 | |
Cereal coffee infusion (1 part boiled in 20 parts water) b | 98.2 | .2 | 1.4 | .2 | 30 |
a Milk and shell.
b The average of five analyses of cereal coffee grain is: Water 6.2, protein 13.3, fat 3.4, carbohydrates 72.6, and ash 4.5 per cent. Only a portion of the nutrients, however, enter into the infusion. The average in the table represents the available nutrients in the beverage. Infusions of genuine coffee and of tea like the above contain practically no nutrients.
 
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