It requires thorough cooking, and is then slightly laxative and very easily digested.
_Buckwheat_ is very rich in nitrogenous substances, and as we eat it, in the form of cakes with butter and sirup, so heating a food, as to be only suitable for hard workers in cold weather.
Indian corn has also a very small proportion of gluten, and thus makes a bread which crumbles too readily.

But it is the favorite form of bread, not only for South and West in our own country, but in Spanish America, Southern Europe, Germany, and Ireland.

It contains a larger amount of fatty matter than any other grain, this making it a necessity in fattening animals.

In a hundred parts are eleven of nitrogen, sixty-five of carbo-hydrates, eight of fatty matter, one and a half of saline, and fourteen of water.

The large amount of fatty matter makes it difficult to keep much meal on hand, as it grows rancid and breeds worms; and it is best that it should be ground in small quantities as required.
_Rice_ abounds in starch.