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Nutritive Properties of Food.

A Report of Mess [Messieurs]: Percy & Vauquelin two members of
the French Institute to the Minister of the Interior gives
the following result of their experiments.

1 Bread - 100[illegible] contains . . 80.[illegible] of nutritious matter
2 Butchers Meat averaging the various sorts 35 [illegible] p [per] 100
3 French Beans (in the grain)                             92 [illegible] p [per] 100
4 Broad Beans                                                         89 [illegible] p [per] 100
5 Peas                                                                        93 [illegible] p [per] 100
6 Lentiles                                                                 94 [illegible] p [per] 100
7 Greens & Turnips                                                 8 [illegible] p [per] 100
8 Carrots                                                                   14 [illegible] p [per] 100
9 Potatoes                                                                 25 [illegible] p [per] 100
1 lb good bread equal to 2½ or 3 lbs best potatoes
75 lbs Bread & 30 lbs Meat = 300 lbs potatoes
¾ pound bread & 5 ounces of Meat = 3 lbs potatoes
1 pound potatoes = 4 lbs cabbage & 3 lbs of Turnips
1 pound of Rice, broad beans or French Beans (in grain)
equal to 3 lbs potatoes. (1822)
        