This section is from the book "The Relation Of Food To Health And Premature Death", by Geo. H. Townsend, Felix J. Levy, Geo. Clinton Crandall. Also available from Amazon: Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You.
"None, unless we except the cocoanut, which is becoming quite an article of commerce, especially its oil. It is now used extensively for making soap, and other purposes."
"I do not. It is one of the toughest and most indigestible of all articles used for food; even shredded cocoanut is extremely difficult to digest,.and the only way that it can be ever used successfully as a food, is to provide some way of pulverizing it to make it as fine as flour, or nearly so, which would not only make it digestible, but more palatable, as well."
 
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