Citations:neutral ash

English citations of neutral ash

• 1963, University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Diet Manual, →OCLC, page 99:

  An acid ash or neutral ash diet may be prescribed to promote diuresis in nephritis and some types of cardiac diseases.

• 1937, Julian Deigh Boyd, Nutrition of the Infant and Child, National Medical Book Company, →OCLC, page 67:

  The first group includes the meats, grains and vegetable proteins; milk is an important example of a neutral ash food; most fruits and vegetables exemplify the basic ash foods.

• 1996, Rosalinda T. Lagua, Virginia S. Claudio, “Diet, ash”, in Nutrition and Diet Therapy Reference Dictionary, 4th edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 83:

  In general, cereals and protein-rich foods have a predominance of the acid-forming elements. Fats, oils, and sugars give a neutral ash. Milk, fruits, and vegetables have a preponderance of the basic-forming elements.