Protein
Proteins are foods which that your body can use as building blocks to make muscle or skin or bones. Some foods which have a lot of protein in them are eggs and meat and cheese and beans and fish. In the ancient world, most people couldn't afford to eat a lot of meat or fish, so they got most of their protein from eggs and beans and cheese. If you ate a lot of bread, you would also get enough protein from the bread.
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To find out more about protein, check out this book from Amazon.com or from your library:
Nutrition: What's in the Food We Eat, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and William Munoz (1992). For kids.
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Cite this page: Carr, Karen. "" Kidipede - History for Kids. 2012. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/food/protein.htm
