FOOD PLANTS.
Many years ago, says the Australian Medical Gazette, it was prophesied that the olive would become a successful Colonial industry, and at the recent Melbourne International Exhibition several excellent samples of salad oil, especially from South Australia, were exhibited. There appears to .be a natural law that were a food-plant, whether indigenous or exotic, finds an appropriate habitat, it is especially suited to the dietetic wants of the inhabitants. The wheat of Northern Europe is rich in starch, in heat-form-ing elements, whilst that of,the South is less hydro-carbonaceous, but remarkably nitrogenous. We are apt to wonder at the Italian finding so much sustenance in maccaroni and the Colonial hushman in damper. But the maccaroni of the Italian, and the damper of the Colonial is, if the flour be the product of the country, so rich in nitrogen as to be practically a meat. The flour from a high, and that from a low latitude are very different foods,-and the traveller who accommodates his appetite to the people he finds himself with is wise inhis generation.
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Patea Mail, 8 May 1882, Page 4
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177FOOD PLANTS. Patea Mail, 8 May 1882, Page 4
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