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Digestible   /daɪdʒˈɛstəbəl/   Listen
Digestible

adjective
1.
Capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal.



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"Digestible" Quotes from Famous Books



... cases greater than that of cooked meat similarly treated. The flesh was shredded and heated by steam to 100 deg. C. The result was the same for beef as for fish. When compared with each other, beef was, on the whole, the most digestible, but the amount of fish flesh which was peptonized was sufficiently great to do away with the evil repute which fish still has in Germany as a proteid food. Smoked meat differed in no essential extent from raw ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various
... alternating and following one another in inextricable and interminable confusion. Every body eats of every thing largely and voraciously, and the short pauses between the appearance of the dishes are filled up by nibblings at such salutary and digestible extremets as raw hams and herrings, pickled cucumbers, and pickled grapes! German cookery is famous for odd mixtures. M. Dumas is rather ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various


Words linked to "Digestible" :   digestibility, edible, light, assimilable, digestibleness, predigested, indigestible, comestible, digest, eatable


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