| Show I II I Things the Public Ought to Be i Told About White V Bread By the Editor of Milling An educated public opinion can cando cando do o much to counteract tho the effect or of tho the exaggerated rated attacks attack on white bread breid by 11 tho faddists and extremists who Stave hl recently b en ensO sO active In t the th bl s British press There Thero aro 1110 ro curtain certain tac facts s that have only to be bo stated staled to convince even people who j ve been bee Influenced by this his Lla biased bla l teaching that white bread an oan an still bo be eaten with advantage nd 1 Whito four Lour ISlands stands tor for pur- pur purIty purity pur purity ity Years or of o experiments by the millers milieu have hav produced a I sound wholesome flour with all the thu harmful eliminated The public demanded an ap ap white whit lour and the mil mil- millers mil miller leIs lers ler decided to satisfy that dl- dl demand de demand mant mand And a ai at the same me time to produce an article that should be wholesome In this thia they have succeeded so well voli that more than 95 per cent or of o tho the population cats eala white while bread E Impurities u are o extracted from the wheat bevy beny in tho the milling and only tho the most valuable partIs part partIs partis Is retained Tho The Tho very ery whIteness or of the flour flout id Is a safeguard against impurities s and dirt so these would only It This was ono one of or tho the reasons that led to the failure of or a a campaign to pop pop- pop popularize standard ard flour a few years before the war An op- op opportunity op opportunity was wan wao provided provide for less leas millers to be careless In cleaning flo Ie tae lio wheat wheat with the result that h occasionally went ent through the mill 2 Another point Jo ao remember is that white whito bread Is easily digested l Whole meal flour Clour includes the husks s a source or of Irritation to many people who In consequence cannot digest bread mado made from whole meal lour flour No matter how IO nutritious an article of or food may be so 80 lon long as asIt asit asit It Is ts unappetizing the secretion or of orthe the digestive Jul Juices Jule es will not be bc stimulated White bread aids dl di- di digestion dl because e it s attractive both to eye ee a id a-id td palate J 1 ns 3 Vitamins or accessory food factors aro are ono of or the latest dis- dis discoveries discoveries dis discoveries of or dietetic dic scIence clence and there thero has been a tendency to tomako tomake tomake make mako a fetish of or them Vita Vita- Vitamins Vitamins mins It Is tr lr In undoubtedly con con- constitute con constitute one ono essential factor ot or our food supply But But however er im- im important Im Important they may be It must not bo be forgotten that they cannot exert their on health except in III association with tho es- es essential es essential constituents In to food car car- carbohydrates protein fats and salts White bread contains contain these con con- constituents constituents con constituents although it Ss s admitted admitted- admittedly ly deficient in ac accessory essory food fac- fac factors factors tor fac-tor tors But these Is not tho the slight slight- slightest slightest cst est doubt that man rinds finds find a clent supply of or then thes In his ordinary ordinary nary mixed diet Milk food fOO fruit green vegetable and meat are adequately supplied with vitamins vita vIta- vItamins vitamins mins The Tho calorific value of or food rood Ss Is every bit a as Important to life lit and health as Its vitamin content A workingman requires something something- like a a cay a ay and JIO ho takes about half these In the tho form of or brea bread LIKE BREAD D Professor T r 1 B Wood professor professor sor SOl of or ag at Cambridge university has hA 1 ISh shown own that to provide 2000 calories a n man must eat cat 2 pounds dark darll mol moist t bread or 13 1 3 2 3 pounds white bread It Is le 1 5 notable that the strongest pre prence for tor white bread brend exists lit In tho Industrial dis- dis dis districts tr ts where men work hardest the tho explanation being that that the whiter bread Is the tho less they have 0 to 10 eat cat to get their Quota of calorIes head Dread Is filling stuff the and the worker naturally chooses the variety which gives Rhes him most calories In least bulk built and Inci- Inci Incidentally Inc Inci Incidentally dentally at bt est price He lIe sup sup- supplements up his Ills bead blead with as is much milk meat and aull ana vegetables bles as his pocket allows Jt It It Is morn mora than doubtful Professor concludes li f the less refined hole meal mial bread so often orten advocated would make malee any improvement In the working working- workingman's mans man's mans man's dietary The Tho man who tells sells bread should know kno these facts and be beable beable beable able to Impart them to customers who have ta been beell influenced by the biased teaching of or the whole wholemeal wholemeal wholemeal meal advocates Ho lie will find that knowledge o 0 this kind helps trade and lI Impresses the canto custo- I custo-I |
