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Protein and fruit
Protein and Fat
Protein, fat and vegetable
Protein, fat and fruit'
Milk and fruit
Milk and nut
Milky fruit and nut.
WRONG, COMBINATIONS
Starch and protein
Starch and acicUruit +
CAUSE (3) Lack of Vegetables:—
Vegetables contain a good percentage of
cellulose, or indigestible fibre. The fibre in vegeta-
bles is soft and plays a very useful role both
in digestion of food and the elimination of waste.
Foods which do not contain much cellulose
(ripe or wheat) form a sticky paste on cooking
(like the one which book binders use). The digestive
juices cannot penetrate into such sticky foods, and
digestion consequently becomes difficult, t
But when they are mixed with vegetables/ even
rice and wheat which do not contain enough celluse,
* All fruits which have a sour taste come under this class
f The role which cellulose plays in digestion is explaind as
follows by Sri K. Lakshmana Sarma—
"Cellulose is the coarse woody fibre which is present in
foods, serving as the frame-work on which the other food *
factors are contained. This is not digested in the food-canal,
but comes out in the stools; for this reason it was supposed
to have no health-value whatever and that it is right to get
rid of it or avoid it as far as possible. In fact it is this woody
fibre which ensures the digestion of the digestible consti-
tuents; without it the food-substance would unite into compact
pasty masses, which the digestive juices cannot penetrate
sufficiently, even if there be enough of such juices, except
perhaps in the very rare case of thorough insalivation and
abstemiousness in eating; the particles of food in its natural
state, from which the cellulose has not been removed, are
held apart by cellulose, so that the digestive juices can
penetrate the food through and through.