protose

== English == === 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. === Noun === protose (uncountable) (historical) A meat substitute made chiefly of wheat gluten and peanuts, popular in the early twentieth century. 1914, Jacob Arnbrecht, Hygienic Cook Book, International Publishing Association, page 72: Cut a can of protose lengthwise in two; put in a pan, fill one-fourth full with hot water, and bake one hour. 1917, Anna Lindlahr, The Nature Cure Cook Book, 5th edition, The Nature Cure Publishing Co., page 273: From the viewpoint of our low protein diet, gluten flour and protose are positively dangerous. 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, →ISBN, page 31: 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 […] === Anagrams === poorest, pooters, postero-, stooper, troopes