Show VALUE OF CArD MATS Secretary Wilson Counteracts Effect of Recent Statements Washington Jan SIn view of the statements which have gained wide circulation regarding the nutritive value of American canned meats tending tend-ing t injure foreign and domestic trade in these goods Secretary Wilson has called upon the director of the of lice of experiment stations for a statement state-ment of the conclusions of scientific experts on this matter This statement is a follows The high nutritive value of American canned meats has been established re rcatedly by thorough and impartial tests conducted by scientific experts Seme years ago Dr W O Atwater professor of chemistry at Wesleyan university Middletown Conn began extended investigations of the nutritive nutri-tive value of foods Later this work was continued by the department of agriculture with funds appropriated by congress for the purpose the investigation investi-gation being assigned to the office of e experiment stations and Professor At waters services secured a special agent in charge These investigations ate still in progress and a large amount of Information has been secured se-cured and the results published in the form of bulletins Educational philan ropical and other institutions throughout the country have cooperated cooper-ated in this work In a communication t > this department Professor Atwater rasa rasaIt is unfortunate that the public at laisc have so little appreciation of the 1 nutritive value of canned meats They 1 really cooked meats divested of the eJsble portions bone gristle etc iv i > loh are found in fresh meats In the cling and canning which is of the nature of boiling rather than roasting water G expelled hut the amount of rutrtive material removed is very sn21 Indeed so that a pound of ordi jurr cnned met has on the average moi rutriment than the same weight of the fresh meat from which 1 is pre Wimf The removal of the bone and part of the water AUe some little nutrn n is taken nay leaves the I Tet in a less bulky and more concen tatei form so that pound for pound the earned meat hUG a higher nutritive viue than the fresh meat In a large number of analyses of fresh and canned meats collected at Chicago durng the Worlds fair and in other prts 01 the country before and since th t tliro and analyzed under my dire di-re otic r the proportions of the nutritive nutri-tive In red5ents in the canned meats have been found to be larger than in t f ordinary fresh meats This is est es-t pecially true of the protein com 4 Iiit < jj which are used by the body to f build up its nitrogenous materials as l bct1 muscle and bone Among the uj Uysos referred to some of the larg et proportions of protein were found fin i f-in the boiled meats Such prepared iieat made of good material and properly prop-erly cannwl I otherwise preserved are worthy of the very high esteem in which they have long been held |