A digest of Japanese investigations on the nutrition of man
By: by Kintaro Oshima
Contributors: United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Series: Bulletin / U.S.  Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations -- no. 159; Bulletin (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) -- no. 159.
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Nutrition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Dietary studies; title: Analyses of food materials; title: Food of the army and navy; title: Miscellaneous investigations. pp. 9.; title: Scope and plane of the compilation. pp. 16.; title: Japanese food materials : Food staples and ways in which they are used; title: Preparations of fish; title: Preparations of cereals; title: THe soy bean and its preparations; title: Miscellaneous food products; title: Alcoholic beverages; title: Composition of Japanes food materials. pp. 18.; title: Food consumption in Japan : Nature of the daily food; title: Preparation of daily food; title: Studies of food consumption; title: Dietary studies; title: Dietary experiments; title: Summary and discussion; title: Deductions. pp. 45.; title: Digestibility of Japanese food materials : Digestion experiments; title: Summary and discussion of results; title: Experiments with animal foods; title: Experiments with cereals; title: Experiments with legumes; title: Experiments with starches; title: Experiments with vegetables; title: Experiments with various diets; title: General summary of digestibility; title: Digestibility of the nutrients of different classes of food materials in Japanese mixed diet. pp. 137.; title: Experiments on the metabolism of nitrogen. pp. 209.; title: Fuel value of nutrients in Japanese diet. pp. 216.