The pecan, though it does not contain very
much protein, is one of the best nuts, one which can be eaten often
without producing dislike.
Nuts have the reputation of being hard to digest. If they are not well
masticated they are very hard to digest indeed, but when they are well
masticated they digest almost as completely as do flesh foods and they
produce no digestive troubles.
One reason that nuts have obtained a bad reputation is that they are
often eaten at the end of a heavy meal, when perhaps two or three times
too much food has already been ingested. The result is indigestion and
the sufferer swears off on nuts. If he had sense enough to reduce his
intake of bread, potatoes, meat, pudding and coffee, the benefit would
be very great. The tendency is for the sufferer from indigestion to pick
out a certain food and blame all the trouble on that, when in truth the
combinations and the quantity of food are to blame.
Some vegetarians make nuts one of their principal foods. We can easily
get along without flesh, for we can obtain all the protein needed from
milk, eggs, nuts and legumes. However, people who are used to flesh are
able to digest it when they can take hardly anything else.
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