Composition of Barley
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) cites the following composition of barley meal according to Ernst von Bibra, omitting the salts::
-
-
Water 15% Nitrogenous compounds 12.981% Gum 6.744% Sugar 3.200% Starch 59.950% Fat 2.170%
-
Read more about this topic: Ernst Von Bibra
Famous quotes containing the words composition of and/or composition:
“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)