non-nitrogenous

The rest assume his classification without reserve, and work from the axiom that heat-making, carbonaceous and non-nitrogenous foods

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Modern experiment shows that all our energy is derived from that of food, and, in particular from the non-nitrogenous part of it, that is, the fat, starch, and sugar.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various

And, further, it is in the bran that the largest proportion of fatty matter -- the non-nitrogenous substance of higher respiratory capacity which the wheat contains -- is found.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

Why is it necessary that nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous compounds be blended in a ration?

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

In each, water makes up a large portion of the weight, and the dry matter is composed of nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous compounds, and ash or mineral matter.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

This is due to the fact that, while the water increases in amount, the loss of organic matter of a non-nitrogenous nature more than counterbalances the increase in water.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Of course the full amount of calories was kept up; as each succeeding quantity of the proteid was left off, it was replaced by a proper quantity of non-nitrogenous food.

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

There are ten parts of non-nitrogenous substance to every one part of nitrogenous; or, in other words, the potato has a wide nutritive ratio, and as an article of diet needs to be supplemented with foods rich in protein.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

We may gather from this fact that the simpler organs of plants low in the evolutionary scale contain simpler non-nitrogenous chemical compounds for their nutrition.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

They are used for the flavoring of food and are composed of mineral matter and the various nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous compounds found in all plant bodies.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder