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  • Some food chemists wish to call the osseids, albuminoids; what were formerly termed albuminoids to be always spoken of as proteids only.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

  • Under this tissue is found with the Nos. 7, 8, and 9, the endosperm or perisperm, containing the gluten and the starch; soluble and insoluble albuminoids, that is to say, the flour.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

  • [16] To this classification may be added what are called albuminoids, a group of bodies resembling proteids, but having in some respects a different nutritive value.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Out of this ammonia the plant takes the nitrogen and works it up with the three elements, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, to make the substances called albuminoids, which form a large part of the food of the plant, and it is these albuminoids which go to make protoplasm.

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • Here it finds starch, oils, sugar, and substances called albuminoids, -- the sticky matter which you notice in wheat-grains when you chew them is one of the albuminoids.

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • The albuminoids or nitrogenous substances are of the nature of white of egg; and, when in small proportion, are necessary for the due performance of the fermentative process.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • There are a few other ingredients in must, namely, the colouring matters and essential oils, and the albuminoids, or nitrogenous substances.

    The Art of Living in Australia 2004

  • The calyces also contain 17% oil with 26% albuminoids, providing high amounts of food energy.

    Chapter 9 1993

  • In order to properly regulate the regimen of the obese, it is first necessary to determine the source of the superfluous adipose of the organism, since either the albuminoids or the hydrocarbons may furnish fat.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • Voit, however, disapproves this, maintaining the greater part of the hydrocarbons is burned (furnishes fuel for the immediate evolution of force), and that fat cannot be stored up unless a due proportion of albuminoids is also administered.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

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