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- noun Plural form of
albumen .
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Examples
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Little fat protein copious food, specified albumens and pigeon breast, are fantastic for dieters that wish heavier helpings, for they contain amino acids that build muscle fibres.
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_ This material appeared to be a homogeneous substance, and a chemical study showed it to be made of chemical elements united in such a way as to show close relation to albumens.
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In their passage through the blood and tissues, the albumens, sugars, starches, and fats are converted into carbon dioxid, water, and urea, or some closely allied body.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The lactic-acid organisms affect the milk sugar and produce lactic acid; others act upon the fat, producing slight changes therein; while others act upon the casein and the albumens of the milk.
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Certain foods, as the vegetable albumens, are both nutritious and digestible.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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But sudden illness, accident, chronic maladies, or possibly the death of the mother, often throw the helpless babes out into a world of many sorts and kinds of artificial foods -- foods that are prepared by modifying cow's, ass ', or goat's milk; foods arranged by the addition to the milk of various specially prepared cereals, albumens or malted preparations, otherwise known as "proprietary foods."
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Speaking of alcohol Dr. Haig writes: 'It introduces no albumen or force, it merely affects circulation, nutrition, and the metabolism of the albumens already in the body, and this call on the resources of the body is invariably followed by a corresponding depression or economy in the future ....
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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Now when protoplasm had been discovered as the "physical basis of life," and, when it was further conceived that this substance is a proteid related to albumens, it was inevitable that a theory should arise which found the explanation of life in accordance with simple chemical laws.
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In Germany much skim milk and buttermilk is fed to swine; the authors demand that this partial waste of very valuable albumens be stopped.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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While it is true that the vegetable albumens furnish all that is really needed for the bodily health, animal food of some kind is an economical and useful addition to the diet.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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