Changes in the food supply and their relations to nutrition / by Lafayette B. Mendel.

  • Lafayette Mendel
Date:
1916
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    least two plant products which may serve as human foods. One of these is proso millet, the other grain sorghum or kaoliang, both of which have long been known in other parts of the world as constituents of the diet of mankind. Both of these seeds can be milled like the familiar cereals and served like these or transformed into culinary products after admixture with flour which enables them to be prepared for baking. The peculiar agricultural advantage in such crops lies in the fact that they are drought-resistant. Proso will grow when and where the staple small grains that require moist regions fail. Kaoliang represents a tropical annual plant which can, by cultivation, be extended north as far as Indian corn on this continent. The dietary possibilities of both proso and kaoliang have already been tested in a semi- public way.3 Food Preservation and Food Conservation.— The preservation of food affects the food supply by making it possible to utilize in times and places 3 Hansen, N. E.: Proso and Kaoliang as Table Foods. South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 158, March, 1915.
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