Excerpt from Victory Gardens Even small amounts of these substances are important, because they supplement What is obtained from other kinds of food. Vegetables differ greatly in their vitamin and mineral contents. Fortunately, however, some of the commonest and easiest to grow are the most valuable. Table 1 shows which of a number of commonly used vegetables are especially good sources of vitamin A, thiamin, ascorbic acid, ribo avin, calcium, and iron. Others, such as onions and beets, have great practical value in meals because of avor and color, even though they are not important for good nutrition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."