vegetable oils in excellence of quality. Moreover the fact 
that Beans, being rich in vitamin B, specially serves to 
raise their nufrition value. 
From the latest nutrition theories, the food value of 
Beans may be inferred as very excellent. 
However, all these are theoretical inferences. 
As to the nutrition value of Beans as whole grains, 
the results of animal experiments have also testified to 
its satisfactory amount. 
(3) CoNCLUSION 
The Orientals who have to depend, for their staple 
food-stuff, on rice, wheat, and barley from ancient times 
has been supplied, comparatively speaking, with insufficient 
nutrition. Particularly in Japan, unlike in Europe and 
America, meat diet has been in vogue only among the 
specified classes of the people in deference to the Buddhist 
doctrines, and the extensive use, to which Beans, together 
with their products have been put as side dishes, has helped 
to make good in a substantial way, for the shortage of 
nutrition, and to preserve the physical strength of the peo- 
ple, thereby rendering incalculable services to the Japanese 
nation. 
As already stated, from the dual standpoint of nutri- 
tion and food value, Beans are bound to have a more ex- 
tended utility in the future as a food material. 
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