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  • Far too many words for comfort, quite indiscriminately absorbed, and now forming a stodgy, indigestible mass in my short-term memory.
  • The statistics are virtually indigestible presented in this form.
  • Foods that are ordinarily indigestible or even allergenic to deer may become daily menu items in situations of severe stress from weather or scarcity of other food.
  • The fruit of the nutmeg is undoubtedly swallowed whole by the bird, and to the powers of deglutition is left the separation of the nutritive portion which we know as mace, from the hard and indigestible nut which is voided in flight. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • Many contain chemicals such as methylcellulose and xanthan gum that could be even more indigestible for you. The Sun
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  • It is, indeed, a true milk peptone -- that is, milk already partly digested, the coagulation of the coagulable portion being loose and flaky, and not of that firm indigestible nature which is the result of the action of the gastric juice upon cow's sweet milk. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
  • A written constitution would replace the present mass of verbose and indigestible devolution legislation.
  • He demonstrates that serious historical scholarship need not be indigestible.
  • Probably the little diodon of the Amazon has a similar means of revenging itself on the voracious monsters to whom it falls a prey; and though it might not be able to liberate itself through the scaly back of an alligator, it would inevitably kill the monster, or cause him such pain as to make him repent having swallowed so indigestible a morsel. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • Touchingly, in his own lecture on the Variations, Schoenberg cites Brahms's F major Cello Sonata and Violin Concerto as pieces that were thought of as "indigestible" and Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • Indigestible matter like fur and bones are neatly regurgitated in the form of pellets.
  • There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh. Little Dorrit
  • Phytase is an enzyme that breaks down phytate so that some of the previously indigestible phosphorus in feed can be digested.
  • He kept up to date by reading the papers and gorging on TV, digesting the indigestible.
  • The statistics are virtually indigestible presented in this form.
  • Indigestible materials like fur, feathers and insect exoskeletons, if swallowed, are regurgitated in a pellet.
  • This portmanteau puddingstone of indigestible bureaucracy leaves enough room for the true major driving force of ZDNet UK Highlights
  • All three versions combine the joy of dry, splintery pastry with the joy of chewy, indigestible glop.
  • Finally, Ian steps away, off to buy his daily rationing of overpriced, indigestible slop.
  • With only 44p spent per student lunch, pupils were too often dining on fatty, salty, indigestible rubbish.
  • Zozaya, like Dicenta, has never done anything but manipulate the commonplace, failing to impart either lightness or novelty to it, as have Valera and Anatole France, succeeding only on the other hand in making it more plumbeous and indigestible. Youth and Egolatry
  • This for me was very refreshing considering I had indigestible food for breakfast.
  • Cheese is popularly termed indigestible, and rice digestible, when in reality the nutrients of cheese are more completely although more slowly digested than those of rice. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
  • She was staring at him, her throat moving as if to swallow indigestible lumps. A WORM OF DOUBT
  • It's the indigestible crystalline starch apparently.
  • Much of the food of the peasantry is raw or half-raw salt fish, and vegetables rendered indigestible by being coarsely pickled, all bolted with the most marvellous rapidity, as if the one object of life were to rush through a meal in the shortest possible time. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • That phytase allows the porkers to break down phytate, which is the indigestible phosphorus in the corn, barley and soybeans that hogs on commercial farms are typically fed. CTV News RSS Feed
  • This is because they contain indigestible sugars that will be broken down by intestinal bacteria to produce gases such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Food leaving the small intestine is called chyme, a semi-liquid mixture of fiber, undigested bits, indigestible bits, and the remains of digestive enzymes. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
  • Soaking beans not only cuts down on the cooking time (preserving nutrients) but it helps break down the indigestible sugars that can cause gas.
  • Ice cream is particularly indigestible since it contains cold fat.
  • Low caloric polydextrose also called indigestible dextrin , was a kind of water - solvable dietary fiber product.
  • Between 50% and 75% of the phosphorus present in cereal grains including corn, soybeans, barley and wheat is present in an indigestible compound called phytate that passes through the pig's digestive tract. BBC News - Home
  • Fiber, which is the indigestible part of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods, helps you achieve flat abs for three reasons.
  • From high - school reimaginings of Shakespeare to romantic gross-out comedies and back, they vary wildly in quality from zippy, witty fun to indigestible slush.
  • Fiber: Parts of plant foods that are indigestible or very slowly digested, with little effect on blood glucose and insulin levels; sometimes called roughage. THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU
  • It contains more fat, mineral matter and cellulose (cellulose is often called indigestible fibre, as it resists the solvent action of the digestive juices, and is of no value as a nutrient), and less proteid and digestible carbohydrates. Public School Domestic Science
  • Occasionally, cats eat grass in order to clear their stomach of indigestible food, like bones, fur, and feathers.
  • Sperm whales also produce ambergris, probably from waste coalescing around indigestible substances in the intestinal tract.
  • Right now I am trapped in a cell which is beyond filthiness with indigestible food.
  • It must be borne in mind, too, that I take no account of the 30 per cent. of the so-called indigestible woody fibre which straw contains, and which, I believe, is partly assimilable under ordinary circumstances, and could be rendered nearly altogether digestible by proper treatment; on the other hand, I have assumed that the woody fibre of the oil-cake is completely digestible, although The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
  • Raffinose merupakan indigestible trisaccharide yang terdapat pada buah dan sayuran. Hubungan Antara Dinding Sel dan Pemasakan Buah – Netsains.Com
  • It is this that makes it the only religion indigestible to modernity.
  • Regarding the composition of snake poo (posts 94, 96), the white, hard part of snake feces comes from the indigestible bones, fur, and other highly calcified tissues. Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing
  • It's effervescent and sparkly, but like champagne it can become indigestible after prolonged exposure.
  • But because most beans are indigestible unless cooked at high temperatures, a raw-food diet contains few of them.
  • In the Far East the stomach of one whale was found to contain the indigestible beaks of 20,000 cuttlefish.
  • In our navy, both royal and commercial, and generally from deep remembrances of slighted love, women have sometimes served in disguise for many years, taking contentedly their daily allowance of burgoo, biscuit, or cannon-balls -- anything, in short, digestible or indigestible, that it might please The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
  • The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formulæ and indigestible dates – unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea. The Story of My Life
  • It is a myth that goats will eat anything, however indigestible.
  • It is now very well known that a great many cases of so-called dyspepsia are really due to over-solicitude about food and the elimination from the diet of so many articles supposed to be indigestible that the patient's nutrition is seriously interfered with. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • I've experimented with baking cakes with these flours, and the result is remarkably grainy and indigestible.
  • Technically, probiotics are indigestible starches that good bacteria feast on.
  • I found the heavy protein practically indigestible.
  • And his opinions were processed the same way, in indigestible chunks. Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
  • The pellets are the indigestible portions of heron's food.
  • These foods contain a type of phosphorus that is indigestible to the pigs, so farmers also feed their pigs an enzyme called phytase to allow the animals to break down and digest the phosphorus. Discover Blogs
  • To the best of my knowledge the residues are not fed to monogastric animals such as pigs or chickens, because much of the material would be indigestible. 9: Domestic animals
  • The indigestible food set heavily on my stomach.
  • However, familiarity with potential prey items greatly enhances recognition of even soft-bodied prey from diagnostic indigestible body parts such as wings, elytra, mandibles, or chelicerae.
  • The pellets are the indigestible portions of the heron's food.
  • The statistics are virtually indigestible presented in this form.
  • Blacks have always been the indigestible mass.
  • The substance in meat called albumen becomes tougher and more indigestible, the higher the temperature to which it is subjected reaches beyond a certain point. The Story of Crisco
  • Although much is known about the transport of orthophosphate in soils, very little is known about the fate of phytate, a compound that is indigestible by poultry and abundant in poultry litter. Innovations-report
  • It's been a stodgy, indigestible day, rather like a failed suet pastry.
  • The truth is perfectly clear and almost perfectly indigestible.
  • It's not excess of turkey and plum pudding that has been indigestible; it's the surfeit of news.
  • The flesh of these fish is reddish and has a reputation for being indigestible.
  • DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBUS, ETC., are often caused by eating indigestible or tainted food, such as unripe or decaying fruit, or stale vegetables; or by drinking impure water or poisoned milk (see p. 321). Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
  • The real and practical alliance between the physical and the psychic -- between body and mind -- is better realized; as for instance: You may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, and it disturbs your _health of mind_. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
  • Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.
  • In Asia it is well known that raw and unfermented soy beans are indigestible.
  • He serves up vast helpings of indigestible fact.
  • This is a mixture of indigestible remnants, unabsorbed water, and millions of bacteria.
  • Snudge felt the food in his belly congeal into an indigestible lump. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • I think," Kaliinin went on, "that there's a charge pattern to the kind of indigestible residue left by the bacteria the white cell is designed to engulf and that that alone would be a trigger for ejection. Destination Brain
  • They may be brought on by exposure to cold and wet, or by improper and indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruits, salads, pastries, and, in fact, anything which interferes with the normal operations of the digestive apparatus. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • Modern medicine categorizes diarrhea as a symptom of a disease, such as scurvy, typhoid, malaria, and dysentery, or as a symptom of indigestible substances in the intestines.
  • The seeds are eaten together with the flesh, but they are indigestible unless chewed.
  • The indigestible food set heavily on my stomach.
  • One of the papers in Science reveals the genetics of a dominant gut bug that serves humans well by breaking down otherwise indigestible food.
  • From high - school reimaginings of Shakespeare to romantic gross-out comedies and back, they vary wildly in quality from zippy, witty fun to indigestible slush.
  • It is generally the result of eating indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruit or uncooked vegetables. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • Toasted cheese was even more indigestible and apt to cause nightmares.
  • All three versions combine the joy of dry, splintery pastry with the joy of chewy, indigestible glop.
  • The facts which I have adduced clearly prove that the straws of the cereals possess a far higher nutritive power than is commonly ascribed to them; that when properly harvested they contain from 20 to 40 per cent. of undoubted nutriment; and lastly, that it is highly probable that their so-called indigestible woody fibre is to a great extent assimilable. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
  • However, indigestible cellulose can be converted into sugars for use as food or as nutrients to grow yeasts, fungi, or plant cell cultures.

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