Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value, by Harry Snyder This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Author: Harry Snyder Release Date: March 22, 2007 [eBook #20871] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMAN FOODS AND THEIR NUTRITIVE VALUE*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) HUMAN FOODS AND THEIR NUTRITIVE VALUE BY HARRY SNYDER, B.S. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914 All rights reserved Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1908. Reprinted October, 1909; September, 1910; February, 1911; September, 1912; May, December, 1913; June, 1914. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE Since 1897 instruction has been given at the University of Minnesota, College of Agriculture, on human foods and their nutritive value. With the development of the work, need has been felt for a text-book presenting in concise form the composition and physical properties of foods, and discussing some of the main factors which affect their nutritive value.