What is "digestible"

Usage examples of "digestible".

If, however, soda biscuits are made thin and baked thoroughly so as to make them at least half or two-thirds crust, they are perfectly digestible and wholesome, and furnish a valuable and appetizing variety for our breakfast and supper tables.

Oatmeal comes the nearest to wheat in the amount of nitrogen or protein, but the digestible part of this is much smaller than in wheat, and the indigestible portion is decidedly irritating to the bowels, so that if used in excess of about one-fifth of our total starch-food required, it is likely to upset the digestion.

If these are got rid of by brisk boiling in at least two waters, then cabbage is a fairly wholesome and digestible dish for the average stomach.

While cooking usually wastes a little, and sometimes a good deal, of the fuel value of the food and, if carelessly or stupidly done, may make it less digestible, in the main it makes it both more digestible and safer, though much more expensive.

What vegetables contain starch, what sugar, and what digestible protein?

In what ways may food be made less digestible and wholesome by cooking?

We know from the strong odour of cooked cabbageleaves that boiling water produces some chemical change in them, and that they are thus rendered far more digestible and nutritious to man.

The digestive process apparently is rather slower than in Drosera, and this agrees with the length of time during which the leaves remain closed over digestible objects.

On the other hand, it is not advisable to go wholly without this meal, but the food eaten should be light, easily digestible, and moderate in quantity.

Only the least irritating and most easily digestible articles of food should be taken.

A fecula is washed from the abundant pith, which is chemically a starch, very demulcent, and more digestible than that of rice.

The food of Earth has its attractions, even if it is so much less than perfectly digestible.

The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form.

They had just lost their most vicious negotiator, my oldest and wiliest enemy in this business, who had toppled off a rusty catwalk into an intake pond, been sucked into a big pipe, shredded into easily digestible bits by rotating knives and processed into toxic sludge.

In their guts they harbour colonies of microscopic, one-celled protozoa, which break down the cellulose for them and make it digestible.