Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Besides, how can this green colour be noxious, when roafted Potatoes, which re- tain it, are as wholefome as boiled ? nay, they are more favoury and delicate; an ad- vantage arifing from the diffipation of the aqueous fluid, and perhaps from the fame extradive matter which communicates the green colour to water. * i Some of the advocates for Potatoes, alarmed by this green colour, and perfuad- ed that it exifts in their juice, have propofed to extrad it, and fubftitute water in its dead; but there cannot perhaps be a more abfurd propofal. In our iflands the juice of the mangoe is feparated becaufe it is really poifonous; I have alfo imitated the procefs of the Americans in feveral indi- genous, farinaceous roots, which without this previous extradion would be very dangerous: but the juice of the Potatoe is far from containing any thing fimilar; like all the other principles, it is eflential to it when we would eat it in fubftance. In order to feparate it, the aggregation mu ft