Download or read book Digestibility of Some Vegetable Fats (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Ford Langworthy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Digestibility of Some Vegetable Fats The average coefficient of digestibility of all the fat eaten during these tests was AS the ether extract of the feces, however, is known to contain metabolic products, a correction hasbeen applied to all of the value for the average availability Of total fat consumed. Digestion experiments with the basal ration alone _as the only source of fat have been reported in connection with the animal-fat experi ments, from which it was concluded that 9.89.per cent of the total weight of water-free feces occurs as metabolic products.1 Subtracting the quantity represented by this percentage from the total ether extract of the feces, a value is Obtained more nearly representing the weight of unutilized fat. The corrected value for the availability of Olive oil then becomes per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.