Breadfruit is best known in connection with an infamously failed project: the 1789 mutiny against the Bounty, commanded by William Bligh. However, four years later, Bligh returned to the Pacific and fulfilled his commission, delivering breadfruit and other Pacific foods to Caribbean plantations. Placing these plant transfers in the emerg- ing sciences of food and nutrition in the eighteenth century, this essay examines the broader political project of what would much later be called 'the welfare state; which motivated British officials' interest in experimenting with novel ingredients and recipes to cheaply nourish a range of dependent populations in institutional settings. Perhaps most strikingly, their nutritional recommendations borrowed directly from agricultural practices, particularly from new methods for feeding livestock in confinement.

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杂种面包果和其他廉价食品：为下层社会谋福利的早期食品科学


面包果最出名的是与一个臭名昭著的失败项目有关：1789 年由威廉·布莱指挥的针对赏金的兵变。然而，四年后，布莱回到太平洋并完成了他的使命，将面包果和其他太平洋食物运送到加勒比种植园。这篇文章将这些植物转移置于 18 世纪新兴的食品和营养科学中，考察了后来被称为“福利国家”的更广泛的政治项目；这激发了英国官员对试验新成分和食谱的兴趣，以在机构环境中廉价地养育一系列受抚养人口。也许最引人注目的是，他们的营养建议直接借鉴了农业实践，