ArMa£h'  iP9hi8rm'}    New  VegetMe  Foods  and  Fruits.  175 
Corn  Flour,  Maize  Flour. — As  a  wheat  sparer,  one  of  the  most 
valuable  substances  that  has  appeared  recently  upon  the  market,  is 
finely  ground  flour  made  from  maize  or  Indian  corn.  It  has  the 
following  composition :  Moisture,  7.9  per  cent. ;  ash,  0.8  per  cent. ; 
fat,  4.85  per  cent. ;  crude  fiber,  0.45  per  cent. ;  carbohydrates  as 
starch,  77.6  per  cent. ;  protein,  8.4  per  cent. ;  foreign  starches,  none. 
It  may  be  mixed  with  wheat  flour  to  the  extent  of  from  15  per  cent, 
to  25  per  cent.,  and  bread,  cakes  and  pies  baked  with  this  mixture 
are  indistinguishable  in  taste  and  texture  from  those  baked  with 
wheat  flour  alone. 
Cottonseed  Flour. — Cottonseed  oil  (from  Gossypium  herbaceum) 
has  been  used  as  a  food,  either  alone  or  in  combination  with  other 
fats  and  oils,  as  in  the  compound  and  imitation  lards.  The  press 
cake  from  the  manufacture  of  the  oil  is  a  valuable  foodstuff  which 
has  largely  been  used  in  cattle  and  stock  feeding.  It  is  recently 
being  introduced  as  human  food  in  package  form,  to  be  mixed  with 
wheat  flour  in  making  bread,  cakes,  etc.  The  flour  ground  from 
whole  cottonseed  is  also  being  introduced  for  the  same  purpose.  It 
is  very  richer  than  the  press  cake  and  must  be  considerably  diluted 
with  wheat  flour  in  baking  and  the  shortening  also  omitted.  Its 
composition  is  as  follows  :  Water,  10  per  cent. ;  protein,  19  per  cent. ; 
fat,  20  per  cent. ;  carbohydrates,  24  per  cent. ;  crude  fiber,  22  per 
cent. ;  ash,  5  per  cent.  Its  mineral  and  crude  fiber  content  are  also 
very  high  and  are  added  reasons  for  its  dilution  with  other  flours  in 
using.  It  is  a  low-priced,  highly  nutritious  food,  whose  only  dis- 
advantage is  the  slig'htly  disagreeable  taste. 
Dasheen. — This  newly  introduced  tuber,  in  which  the  U.  S. 
Bureau  of  Plant  Industry  (Bulletin  11 10  and  Yearbook  of  the  U. 
S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture,  1916)  has  taken  such  an  interest,  has  been 
traced  back  originally  to  China,  where  it  forms  an  important  part 
of  the  staple  food  crop.  It  is  the  tuberous  root  of  an  aroid  plant 
of  the  genus  Colocasia.  It  has  been  cultivated  for  many  years  in 
tropical  America  and  is  known  under  the  names  "  malanga,"  "  eddo," 
"  coco,"  "  taya  "  and  "  taniei  "  (also  spelled  "  tannia  "  and  "  tanyah  ") . 
It  is  closely  allied  to  the  Hawaiian  Taro. 
The  plant  looks  like  the  caladium  or  elephant's  ear.  The  corms 
or  central  tubers  range  in  size  from  1  to  5  pounds,  and  the  smaller 
tubers  which  surround  the  corms  in  growing,  weigh  from  1  to  4 
ounces.    The  yield  from  a  single  hill  sometimes  reaches  20  pounds. 
It  is  beginning  to  be  raised  as  a  regular  crop  in  many  parts  of 
