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Show Nuts and Fruits Nourishing. I Tho experiments that wero carried on last winter by Dr. Harvey W. Wlloy for the purpose of discovering whether or not tho so-called preservatives used on food products In this country nre harmful aro not tho only experiments that havo beon carried on nlong die-tarlan die-tarlan lines in this country in tho last two or three years. Prof. M. E. Jaffa, assistant professor of agriculture at the University of California, carried on a series bt oxperlmonts among frultar-Iiuib, frultar-Iiuib, povfionB who llvo solely on fruit and nuts and fruit or nut products. Theso experiments were successful, nnd Information of great valuo was obtained through thorn. Tho Department Depart-ment of Agriculture has Just Jublished a pamphlet containing somo of tho data collected by Prof. Jaffa and edited edit-ed by him. Ho says: "An Investigation of tho nutrltlvo valuo of fruits, Instituted by tho offlco of experiment stations, was undertaken under-taken at tho University of California in 1900-01, and dietaries of flvo fruitarians fruitar-ians two women nnd three children woro studied. At tho samo tlmo with ono of tho children n girl a digestion diges-tion experiment was mado In which fruit nnd nuts constituted tho entire diet. A study of tho income and outgo of nltrogon and tho estimation of tho so-called metabolic nitrogen in tho feces woro Included In the digestion M oxpcrlmont. Tho results showed In M every caso that though tho diet had a M low protein and oncrgy valuo, tho sub- M jeets woro apparently In oxcellent M health and had boon bo during tho M flvo to eight years thoy had been llv- M lng in this manner. M "Continuing tho investigations on H the nutrltlvo valuo of fruits and nuts, H it was docmod advisable to extend tho M work to Include, in nddition to the. M women nnd children previously stud- M lad, subjects whose lives and habits M differed considerably from thoso of M tho earlier investigation. According- .H ly four men woro selected, two bolng H past tho middle ago and two young M men university students. Tho oldorly M men had been moro or less strict vog- H ctarlans and fruitarians for yoars. Ono M of tho young mon had beon oxporl- M mcntlng with tho fruitarian diet for M soveral years, whllo tho othor was H nccustomod to tho ordinary mlxod H "As shown by their composition and H digestibility, both fruit and nuts can H bo favornbly compared with other and M moro common foods. As sources of M carbohydrates, fruits at ordinary H prices nro not oxponslvo, nnd as M sources of protein nnd fat nuts at H usual prices aro reasonable." H |
