Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Volume 1Audrey H. Ensminger "Covers the whole gamut of the three-pronged subject, foods-nutrition-health." Approximately 2800 entries intended for lay persons and professionals. Authorities who compiled the book selected topics according to interest to readers as consumers. Opposing points of view are presented in entries. While a few entries are several pages long, most are brief and concise. Tables, illustrations, cross references. Index. |
Contents
Inability to digest starch | 66 |
AMYLOSE | 334 |
ANABOLISM | 357 |
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absorption alcohol allergies amino acids amounts and/or anemia animals bacteria baking powder barley beans beef beer beverages bioflavonoids biotin blood sugar body bone bread butter calcium calories Calories kcal cancer carbohydrate carbon carrageenan cassava cause cells cereal cheese chemical cholesterol choline chromium citrus coffee color consumed contain cooked corn cream crop deficiency diabetes diet dietary digestive disease disorders dough dried drinks drugs eggs energy enzymes excretion factors fatty feeding fermentation fiber flavor flour folic acid Food Composition Table fruit glands glucose grain Hence hormones infants insulin intake intestine iron juice kcal kidney legumes liver malt meal meat metabolism milk minerals normal noteworthy nutrients NUTRITIONAL VALUE phosphorus plant protein result rice salt seeds sodium starch substances symptoms syrup tion tissues types urine usually varieties vegetables vitamin B-12 vitamin D wheat yeast