Excerpt from Model Diet Tables: Prepared by Order of the Michigan State Board of Health To this group belong some of the most important food-stuffs. They all contain nitrogen, and for this reason foods rich in these constituents are called nitrogenous foods. The chief proteids are ordinary albumen, as the white of egg, casein of milk, fibrin of meat, gluten of grains, flour and meal, and legumen of peas and beans. The amount of proteids in the vari ous foods is variable, as will be seen further on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.