"protose" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Coined by John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor, and used as a brand name by the Sanitas Nut Food Company, Battle Creek Foods, and Worthington Foods. Apparently from protein + -ose. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|protein|ose}} protein + -ose Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} protose (uncountable)
  1. (historical) A meat substitute made chiefly of wheat gluten and peanuts, popular in the early twentieth century. Tags: historical, uncountable
    Sense id: en-protose-en-noun-RWbK0tg7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ose

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          "ref": "1914, Jacob Arnbrecht, Hygienic Cook Book, International Publishing Association, page 72",
          "text": "Cut a can of protose lengthwise in two; put in a pan, fill one-fourth full with hot water, and bake one hour."
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          "ref": "1917, Anna Lindlahr, The Nature Cure Cook Book, 5th edition, The Nature Cure Publishing Co., page 273",
          "text": "From the viewpoint of our low protein diet, gluten flour and protose are positively dangerous."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, John Weightman (tr.), translation of Jean Verdenal's letter to T. S. Eliot dated 1912 February 5, in The Letters of T. S. Eliot, volume I (Valerie Eliot, ed.), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 31",
          "text": "I see Prichard occasionally for lunch in a vegetarian restaurant…. The dishes have strange names, like those of some unknown religion; initiates think nothing at all of ordering ‘a protose of peppers’ [?] or ‘a nuttalene’ [?]. These names, smacking of organic chemistry, correspond to substances which pretend to be meat without being so […]"
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