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Show NUTRITIOUS PLANT The French chemist Balland haa analyzed an annual food plant called "woandsu," growing in tropical Africa, Af-rica, and introduced in southern Asia and Brazil. This plant is, it appears, the first fruit, in the natural state, that has ever been examined and found to contain all the chemical properties of a perfect nutriment. Two pounds of it, it is claimed, would supply the daily requirements of the human system. Like the peanut, it matures underground. Its edible kernel is shaped like an egg. It furnishes a very white flour, the flavor of which, after cooking, resembles that of the chestnut. |