FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
AUTO-INTOXICATION, DIGESTIVE
Excerpted from Montagne, Prosper. 1961. Larousee Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York.
is a form of intoxication, due to healthy foods (particularly albuminoids) ingested in excessive quantity and subjected to bacterial putrefaction in the inteswtines, should not be confused with alimentary intoxication due to ingestion of toxic foods or foods which have gone bad.