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Show uu Fsct Auoiit ths MiiaJirocni. A well-known botanist scya thp.t mushrooms might properly be called vegetable meat and used as a substitute substi-tute for animal food "It Is doubtful, howcer, If this Is true.' '6ajs tho American Modlcal assoclntlon "The more we learn of mushrooms, the more It becomcB apparent that they are ccarcoly different aB regards dietary virtues from the general run of the green vegetables which have never achieved the distinction of any unique or feuperlor nutritive properties They belong rather to that large group of food materials which we consume for reasons quite apart from the yield of nourishment which they have to offer to the bodj " on |