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Show DESICCATED VEGETABLES. Dried Garden Track Will Be Used by Uncle Sam's Soldiers. Desiccated vegetables are coming on the market, for use especially by prospectors pros-pectors and hunters, who are obliged to economize every ounce in the weight of the provisions they carry. Necessity compels them to select such foods as combine the maximum o! BlitriineEL j;wtth."'ne ir.inimum of bulk and avoirdupois. avoir-dupois. This implies water-free substances, sub-stances, and dried fruits and vegetables vege-tables are especially adapted for the purpose. Of late the War Department has been experimenting with products of this kind; it has found them wholesome whole-some and in all respects desirable, and is likely to use them largely in future years. White potatoes, carrots and sweet potatoes have been found particularly; available for desiccation. The sweet potatoes are cut up into little cubes, while the white potatoes and carrots are sliced. When wanted for use, they have to be soaked in water befor cooking them; as sold, they are supposed sup-posed to be absolutely water . free.' What a saving in weight and bulk they represent will be Realized when it i understood that. fresh white potatoes contain 80 per cent o water and fresh carrots 90 per cent. Experiments have proved that the drying process causes no loss of nutriment nutri-ment and that the product furnishes a most valuable addition to the food of people who are unable to get fresh vegetables. The desiccated white potatoes po-tatoes are as rich in muscle-forming element as the best wheat flour, though consisting mainly of the starchy material ma-terial which is so useful as fuel for the body machine. The same thing may be said of the carrots and sweet potatoes; but a notable fact is that dried eastern vegetables are richer in starch ana poorer in muscle-forming ' material than those grown in California. |