than cooked in any other form.

BEETS.

Beets contain between 85 and 90 per cent. of starch and sugar, some
salts, and a little over one per cent. of proteid matter. Young beets,
either in the form of a vegetable or a salad, are considered to be
very wholesome.

CARROTS, TURNIPS, PARSNIPS, OYSTER PLANT.

Carrots, turnips, parsnips and oyster plant, although containing a
large percentage of water, are considered valuable as nutrients, the
turnip being the least nutritious.

GREEN VEGETABLES.

Green vegetables do not contain much nutriment, and are chiefly
valuable as affording a pleasing variety in diet; also for supplying
mineral matter and some acids. In this class we may include cabbage,
cauliflower, spinach, lettuce and celery.

TOMATOES.

Tomatoes are wholesome vegetables; on account of the oxalic acid they
contain they do not always agree with people of delicate digestion.

CUCUMBERS.

Cucumbers are neither wholesome nor digestible.