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Dextrin is the form of sugar that the starchy part of the grain is turned into before it can be digested. Dextrin is the part that makes human energy. Grape-Nuts has about double the energy~producing power of any other food on earth.

In the last line of the analysis is shown the percentage of the food that is ready for immediate digestion.

Those who feed mainly on half-cooked or soft cereals, such as porridge, rice or other starchy foods, form the habit of swallowing them quickly without proper mastication. When the food is presented to the stomach in such condition, the interior of many granules remains untouched with the digesting juices, and becomes fermented in the intestines as a consequence.

This fermentation in the intestines often produces Bright’s disease, diabetes, rheuma