OF THE COCOANUT DURING GERMINATION 333 
Comparison of the averages given on the opposite page may 
~be made with the following previously recorded results for the 
fresh endosperm from nuts of eastern origin : * : 
FRESH ENDOSPERM- Dry ENDOSPERM 
Water. Total Organic Inorganic Organic Inorganic 
Solids, ° Matter. Matter, Matter, Matter. 
46.64 53-36 52.39 0.97 98.20 1,80 
The agreement is seen to be very close, 
By reason of the dietetic and commercial values of the various 
constituents of the endosperm of the cocoa fruit, numerous prod- 
ucts of the kernel have been made and analyzed. The air-dried 
endosperm, or so-called “‘ copra,” is shipped in large quantities from 
the tropics. Cocoa-oil is obtained from the copra by various 
methods in countries distant from the tropics, the solid residues 
remaining after extraction serving various purposes. This residue 
makes up the so-called “ cocoa-cake” obtained in the process of 
€xpressing the oil at various degrees of temperature. It is also 
\ * ground into “ cocoa-meal.”’ In both forms, the residual substance 
In- 
| Total | Nitrog- | = organic 
Water. Solids. | | N-free 3 
| Organic Matter. 
| 
Pp 
roducts Analyzed, at Fat. | Extrac-| Fiber 
stance. age 
i 
| 
| | 
dosperm, perfectly dried. + | —— | 100.00, 10.29 | 67.35 | 15.11 | §.42| 1.83 
Endosperm, free from fat and | 
__ Water, | —— | 100.00] 31.49 —— | 46.25 | 16.69 | 5.57 
‘* Cocoa-cake.”” 4d 10.30 | 89.70) 19.70 | 11.00. 38.70 | 14.40 | 5.90 
« Cocoa-meal..”? | 11.12} 88.88, 17.94 | 10.88 | 35.34 | 17-40 | 7.32 
oa-meal,’’ after extraction 
of oil, 7 | 4.55 | 95.45} 23.20] 1.85 | 64.45 595 
Ee { —<——$—_____—— 
* Hammerbacher : Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen, etc., 18: 472. 1875. 
See also Bizio : Pharmaceutisches Centralblatt, 757. 1833. 
s Me : Menschlichen Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, etc., 2 : 652. 1893. Also 
» 308, ; 
t Hammerbacher : Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen, etc., 18: 472. 1875. 
—& Dietrich und Kénig: Zusammensetzung und Verdaulichkeit der Futtermittel ; 
2: 1031. 1897. 
l| Dietrich und Konig: iééd., 1: 725. 
_ J Schaedler : Technologie der Fette und Oele des Pflanzen- und Thierreichs, 
74 1892. (a) For references to digestibility and nutritive value of cocoa-cake see 
es of experiments on pigs and sheep given by Dietrich and Kénig, 2 : 1031, 1036, 
4% 1123. (6) Compare above results with the table for general composition on 
the opposite page. 
