People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others – all the farinaceous foods such as wheat and barley – which contain a greater amount of nutriment than beef or any other animal meat.


Essays on Diet (1883); quoted in Prof. Francis William Newman at the International Vegetarian Union website.

Francis William Newman Quotes

People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others...

People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others...

People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others...

People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others...