Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.
- Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![/ I [ 63 ] , CHAPTER VII. • • OF THOSE FARINACEOUS SEEDS AND ROOTS FROM WHICH IT IS NECESSARY Mr TO EXTRACT THE STARCH. ■ IT has been long a prevailing opinion, that feeds belonging to the great fami- ly -of grades, were the only receptacle of ftarch : but it cannot now be doubted, that it is to be found in puife, and in a great number of other feeds and roots belonging to various claffes. I would almoft ven- ture to alledge, that there is no part of fructification in which it is not contained; that it is identical, from whatever fubftance it is extracted and that the ftarch of feeds is not more attenuated than the ftarch of roots. It feems to me that berries and ftone fruits cannot contain ftarch, becaufe their pulp is too foft to hold and fupport a folid body :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24926565_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
