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Title: Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value

Author: Harry Snyder

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HUMAN FOODS AND THEIR NUTRITIVE VALUE

by

HARRY SNYDER, B.S.

New York
The MacMillan Company
1914
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1908,
by the MacMillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1908. Reprinted
October, 1909; September, 1910; February, 1911; September, 1912;
May, December, 1913; June, 1914.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

Since 1897 instruction has been given at the University of Minnesota,
College of Agriculture, on human foods and their nutritive value. With
the development of the work, need has been felt for a text-book
presenting in concise form the composition and physical properties of
foods, and discussing some of the main factors which affect their
nutritive value. To meet the need, this book has been prepared,
primarily for the author's classroom. It aims to present some of the
principles of human nutrition along with a study of the more common
articles of food. It is believed that a better understanding of the
subject of nutrition will suggest ways in which foods may be selected
and utilized more intelligently, resulting not only in pecuniary saving,
but also in greater efficiency of physical and mental effort.

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