| Show what shall ws we eat 11 W 0 atwater At nater ill ih U D professor of chemistry in wesleyan keseyan universo it jo v s io if pamphlet issued under the auspices of the united states department part ment of agriculture cays avs A quart of milk three q s of a pound of moderately fat beef sirloin steak for instance and five of wheat flout all contain about the same amount of material mate rial but we pay different for thern them and they lue bane different values fur butrim nutriment en t the milk food comes orl e s nearest to beia a perfect food it cout contains ains all of f the different bent kinds of nutritive materials that the body needs bread made fiction the wheat flour mil support life it contains all of the necessary ingredients in for nourishment but not in in the proportions best adapted fur ordinary use A man mala might live on beef slone alone but it would be a very cry oue sided aud and imperfect diet but traean meat and bidal together make mak e the essentials ofa of a healthful diet such are arette the facts of experience the advancing I 1 science of later years explains them this explanation takes into account not simply quantities of meat and bread and milk and other materials which we eat I 1 but also the nutritive ii sigred gred ien bonts ts or nutrients which they contain tile the chief uses of food are tw ano 0 to form the material of the body and repair its wastes to yield heat beat t to keep the body tarm and to provide mus enlar and other power fr the werk wark it has to dr atwater has hail prepared two tables showing first the composition of food material the most important of which are the nutritive ingredients and their fuel value second the pecuniary economy of food in IS aich the amount of nutrients is il stated in pounds in the first table we find end that butter lias bas the greatest fuel value fat pork coming second and the balance of the foods mentioned being valued as fuel in the following ing order cheese oatmeal sugar lice i beans cornmeal wheat flour abeal bread leg of mutton nod and beef sirloin round of beef I 1 mackerel salmon codfish oysters cows milk and potatoes stand very low as fuel foods I 1 from the second feconda table we learn that the greatest greated 4 nutritive in value in any kind of food of a specified value dr Ati atwater vater takes 25 re cents cis worth of every kind of food is found in cornmeal I 1 in it 10 pounds of cornmeal there are a trifle more than 8 pounds of actual nutriment in 8 si pound of wheat flour there are over 61 pounds of nutriment in 5 pounds is white hite sugar bugar there are aj 4 pounds of nutriment in 5 pounds of beans there a I 1 pounds of nutriment in 20 pounds of potatoes there are 3 1 I pounds of nutriment in 25 cen cent tal worth of fat salt pork there are 3 N pounds of nutriment in the same value of n heat bread there are aj 2 pounds in the rieck aeck of beef if pounds i in a skim milk 11 1 pounds pound in whole milk cheese a trifle more than aj 1 pounds in butter buiter 14 pounds and in smoked ham and d leg of mutton matters about the same came in milk a trifle over I 1 pound in mackerel about I 1 pound in round lound 0 of f beef I 1 dofa of a poll pound nd i ia a salt codfish and d beef sirloin about I 1 a pound in in eggs at 25 23 cents cebu a dozen about 7 ounces in fieth codfish about 6 ounces ounce and in oysters at 35 cents a quart about 3 ounces troy |
