Sentences with phrase «best nutriment»

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For a plant, to live well means to metabolize nutriment, grow, and reproduce well.

They boil, broil, or toast all the meat they eat, and it is very common with them to boil fish as well as flesh with their hominy; this is Indian corn soaked, broken in a mortar, husked, and then boiled in water over a gentle fire for ten or twelve hours, to the consistence of frumenty: the thin of this is what my Lord Bacon calls cream of maize, and highly commends for an excellent sort of nutriment.

Better yet, the diet is rich in meat with 75 % protein derived from animal nutriment.