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The microscopy of vegetable foods (1906)

Winton, Andrew Lincoln, 1864-1946, Moeller, Josef, 1848-1924 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 464

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f spermoderm with portions of the inner pericarp adhering to theouter surface and the perisperm to the inner surface, is thin and brittle,readily breaking away from the cotyledons. There is no endosperm,the reserve material being entirely in the chocolate-colored embryo con* COCOA BEAN. 443 sisting… … Fig. 345. Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao). I entire fruit, Xi; IT fruit in cross section. Ill seed (cocoa bean), natural size; IV seed deprived of spermoderm; V seed in longitu-dinal section, showing radicle (germ); VI seed in cross section. (Winton.) angular pieces known as cocoa nibs, from which are…

Food adulteration and inspection · Plant anatomy · Microscopy

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