| 单词 | vegetable gelatin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable gelatin vegetable gelatin n. any of several gelatinous substances obtained or manufactured from plants; spec. (a) one of the constituents of gluten (now rare); (b) any of several substances used in place of animal gelatin in cooking, esp. agar, chiefly obtained from seaweed; cf. vegetable jelly n. ΚΠ 1803 W. B. Johnson Hist. Progr. & Present State Animal Chem. III. 202 Some account of the analogies that subsist between vegetable and animal matters, particularly between vegetable gelatin, and gluten, and animal gelatin, and fibrin. 1839 Mag. Domest. Econ. Oct. 99 By chemical treatment with nitric acid, it [sc. cartilage] may be converted into gelatin.., and almost identic with the vegetable gelatin, or jelly of plants and fruits. 1900 J. J. Black Forty Years Med. Profession xii. 455 There are four substances in it [sc. gluten],—vegetable albumin, vegetable casein, vegetable fibrin, and vegetable gelatin, the latter being considered an albumin-saving food. 1916 Creamery & Milk Plant Monthly Mar. 36 The vegetable gelatin is manufactured from an American seaweed and from Irish moss. Just how extensively it is used we are unable to state. 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 1 July (Features Mag.) e1 The marshmallows are made with vegetable gelatin instead of the usual animal-based variety. < as lemmas |
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