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Excerpt from Mushrooms and Their Use
They constitute a very nutritious and sustaining diet. Chemi cal analysis, as well as experience, indicates this. The former has shown that they contain in their dry matter from 20 to 50 per cent. Of protein or nitrogenous material, and they may there fore be called a vegetable meat, and be used as a substitute for animal food.
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