In a hundred parts are found seven and a half of nitrogen, eighty-eight of starch, one of dextrine, eight-tenths of fatty matter, one of cellulose, and nine-tenths of mineral matter.

Taken alone it can not be called a nutritive food; but eaten with butter or milk and eggs, or as by the East Indians in curry, it holds an important place.
We come now to OLEAGINOUS SEEDS; nuts, the cocoanut, almonds, &c, coming under this head.

While they are rich in oil, this very fact makes them indigestible, and they should be eaten sparingly.
_Olive-oil_ must find mention here.

No fat of either the animal or vegetable kingdom surpasses this in delicacy and purity.

Palm-oil fills its place with the Asiatics in part; but the olive has no peer in this respect, and we lose greatly in our general distaste for this form of food.