Next in order to the saccharine foods as the source of indigestion in gouty persons come the amylaceous aliments.
For this purpose, almost every amylaceous vegetable at once plentiful and cheap has, in its turn, been eagerly appropriated.
It forms a nutritious and easily digested amylaceous food, being used in place of starch in some preparations of cocoa.
amylaceous, Amyloid, composed of starch (amylum), or starch-like.
For this purpose physiologists prefer the fatty to the amylaceous varieties of diet.
The saccharine, or amylaceous substances constitute the most abundant of the proximate constituents of plants.
Like the other amylaceous substances, it forms a valuable and nutritious article of food for the invalid.
The bones, being heavier than the amylaceous substances, are to be found in the apex of the cone formed by the residue.
amylaceous am·y·la·ceous (ām'ə-lā'shəs)
Of, relating to, or resembling starch; starchy.