OF THE COCOANUT DURING GERMINATION' 



iVMi 



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 



Water. Total Organic 



Solids. Matter. 



46.64 53.36 52.39 



Inorganic 



Matter. 



0.97 



Dry Kndosperm 



Organic Inorganic 



Matter. Matter. 



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 

 expressing the oil at various degrees of temperature. It is also 

 eround into "cocoa-meal." In both forms, the residual substance 



1875- 



Also 



* Hammerbacher : Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen, etc., 18: 472. 

 See also Bizio : Pharmaceutisches Centralblatt, 757. 1833. 



\ Konig : Menschlichen Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, etc., 2 : 652. 1893. 

 p. 308. 



J Hammerbacher : Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen, etc., 18 : 472. 1875. 



^Dietrich und Konig: Zusammensetzung und Verdaulichkeit der Futtermittel; 

 2 : 1031. 1891. 



II Dietrich und Konig : i7>u/., l : 725. 



Tl Schaedler : Technologic der Fette und Oele des Pflanzen- und Thierreichs, 

 624. 1892. (a) For references to digestibility and nutritive value of cocoa-cake see 

 results of experiments on pigs and sheep given by Dietrich and Konig, 2 : 1031, 1036, 

 ^040, 1 123. {i) Compare above results with the table for general composition on 

 the opposite page. 



