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Show Vitamin C Needs Cited by State Nutritionist With barrels of apples in the 6toreroom and canned peaches, pears cherries, plums, and so on in the pantry, it may not seem necessary to buy other fruits except as a luxury. But that deiHinds on the rest of the diet, especially on how many sources of vitamin C it includes regularly. Fresh citrus fruits, for example, are richer than most other kinds of fruit In vitamin C, Miss Elna Miller, extension ex-tension nutritionist of the Utah State Agricultural college, advises. Everyone n:ed.j vitamin C, especially espec-ially the childreni' to keep-teeth and gums in good condition and promote general good health. In addition to tho citrus fruits, canned tomatoes BJid tomnho IiiLca nrovldo vit.fl.min C but oranges two or three times a week, or grapefruit, or fresh lemon Juice, gives more variety and ensure an adequate supply of vitamin C. Two tablespoons of orange juice a day, or about twice as much tomato Juice, is the very least the baby needs. Aside from food values, both oranges or-anges and graix:frult add zest to dishes and fruit juice mixtures. A tcasioonful of lemon juice improves ! almost any fruit drink, and in gela tine and other fruit desserts lemon juice brings out the main flavor or tones It uj5 with prunes, for example. ex-ample. Market economists predict for 1936 and the next few years an abundant supply of oranges and grapefruit and the usual supply of lemons, if weather weath-er conditions are average or better. They say that retail prices of oranges oran-ges and grapefruit will probably decline de-cline to the relative level of other fruits. The freeze last winter in producing sections killed many good oranges and grapefruit trees back to the trunk, but, nevertheless, production pro-duction has been steadily increasing. |