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VEGETADLE FOOD. 
The following table gives the quantities of oil or fat in one hundred 
pounds of the more common articles of food : — 
VEGETABLE FOOD. 
Potatoes 
. 0-2 
Wheat flour . 
. 1-2 
Barley Meal . 
. 03 
Oatmeal 
. 5-7 
Indian Meal . 
. 7;7 
Eye . 
. 1-0 
Peas .... 
. 2-0 
Bice .... 
. 07 
Beans . 
. 2-0 
Cocoa 
. 50-0 
Lentils 
. 20 
Buckwheat . 
. l'O 
Tea 
. 4-0 
Coffee . 
. 12-0 
ANIMAL FOOD. 
Milk ... 
. 35 
Pork . . . . 
. 50-0 
Veal 
. 16-0 
Beef . . * 
. 30-0 
Mutton . 
. 40-0 
Fish , 
. 7-0 
Cheese 
. 250 
The olive (Olea Europea) is cultivated in the south of Europe. The 
part of the plant which contains the oil is the fruit. The berries of 
the olives are pressed, and yield the oil which is so extensively 
employed on the continent of Europe, and known in this country under 
the name of salad oil. In countries where little butter or fat meat is 
employed as food, this oil is a most important ingredient in diet. 
The seeds of most plants contain oil in addition to starch and other 
principles. Many seeds are used for obtaining oil for various purposes 
in the arts, as the poppy, rape, mustard, hemp, and flax seeds. The 
following seeds, eaten as food, contain oil : — 
Almonds . 
Chesnuts 
Walnuts 
Peccan nuts 
Brazil nuts 
Spanish and hazel nuts 
Hickory nuts 
Beech nuts . 
{Amygdalis communis)* 
(Castania vesca). 
{Juglans regia et Juglans ?iigra). 
(Juglans olivoz formis). 
(Beriholletia excelsa). 
{Carylus avellana). 
(Carya alba). 
(Fagus sylvatica). 
