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Title: A description of some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive and economic value
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Blasdale, Walter Charles, 1871- United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Vegetables, Chinese Vegetables China Botany China
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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for this constituent,the amount present is not far from the average of the results obtainedfor potatoes and similar vegetables. The analyses also show that alarge percentage of the crude proteiu is of an albuminoid nature, theproportion being somewhat greater than in the case of the potato. Mostof this was found to consist of a soluble albumin which coagulates at74° C. A red coloring matter is ))resent in the taro in considerableamounts. As a whole the taro is characterized by the high jjercentage of car-bohydrates, of whi(;h starch is the most important representative, andby the low i^ercentage of fat and crude fiber. From a dietetic stand-point it apparently offers no especial advantage over our commonlycultivated vegetables, but where it is eaten it seems to be a satisfactorysubstitute for them. It is favorably known to the Anglo Saxon resi-dents of the Trojtics, who soon acquire a liking for it, and even in San U. i. Dept. of A_«r„ Bui, 68, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate IV.
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15 Fraucisco there is a limited deiiunid among the white races for theroots. A root of C. antiquorum is shown in PI. IV, fig. 5. The area in the United States suited to the culture of taro is some-what limited. A patch of it has been growing in the Garden ofEconomic Plants of the University of California for a number of years,and has produced an abundance of large sound roots. In southernCalifornia it makes a rapid growth, but requires an abundant sui)plyof water. The Florida Experiment Station^ has also experimentedwith it and reports satisfactory results. AVATER CHESTNUT. Though several species of Scirpus and the allied genus Eleocharisbear tuber-like roots, they are not commonly considered plants ofeconomic importance by Euroi)eans, and are seldom mentioned outsideof the systematic manuals. The water chestnut (E. tuherosa) is said tobe widely cultivated in China and Japan as a food plant, and is therehighly esteemed. In the former countries it is known to the English-speaking resid

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