Wednesday Words
“Sugars and starches are compounds made of only three elements — carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. When sugars and starches are broken down to these elements, there are two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen for every atom of carbon. Two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen are the same as a molecule of water. For this reason, sugars and starches were called carbohydrates which means watered carbon.”
“In the eighteenth century, scientists became interested in a kind of substance found in all living things that acted differently from all other substances. If a fluid like blood or egg white was heated, it did not become a boiling liquid like water or oil. Instead, it became a solid. And, if this was not strange enough, once changed to a solid, it could never again become a liquid. Nothing could be done to return blood or egg white to its original liquid state. It did not take scientists long to realize that this strange material that changed permanently when heated was the very basis of all life. For this reason, they named it protein meaning, of first importance.“
~ Vicki Cobb in Science Experiments You Can Eat
A Living Pencil 
Cool – my daughter and I were just talking about what protein is yesterday!
Carrie
Yes, thanks for the science lesson, too.
What fun I never knew existed in the land called science!!
Wonderful! (full of wonder). I am freshly off my no-“watered carbon” diet, eating less “first important” items and more fresh fruits and veggies. Wait! beans and most summer veggies are both and fruit is the best watered carbon there is! This is fun!
I’m glad someone got the idea I was trying to protray with my title 🙂
Oh, and thanks for the paperback trading link, I’m trying to get my hubby into it.
Yeah, I just wonder how they got everything done back in those days!! Did they all get together and help one another or what? I could never have done it all so fast if my parents hadn’t come over and everyone pitched in. Thats my idea of a family gathering but I dont’ think my family would be into it every time we got together LOL!