| Show stood alue ut oj attorn urging the use of oysters as food an exchange says speaking roughly a quart of oysters contains on the average about the mime quantity of actual nutritive substance as a quart of milk or a pound of very lean beef or a pound and a half of fresh codfish or two thirds of a pound of bread but while the weight of actual nutriment in the different quantities of food material named is widely different that of the very lean meat or codfish consists mostly of what are called in chemical langa ugo protein compounds or flesh formers the substances which make blood muscle tendon bone brain and other nitrogenous tissues that of the bread contains but little of these and consists chiefly of starch with a little fat and other compounds which serve tha body as fuel and supply it with heat and muscular power the nutritive sul anco of oysters contains considerable of both the flesh forming and tho more especially heat and force giving ingredients |
