| Show you eat ton of food in year with emphasis on dairy items the food the average CHICAGO C american eats in a year equal to almost a ton and more than ten times the average weight of an adult was piled up for display before a group of young vegetable growers here recently the merchandise was assembled in actual quantity at the annual banquet of the junior vegetable grocers association during their convention on the basis of figures compiled from official sources the average american consumes nearly his own weight in meat alone using pounds as an average weight heavy on dairy products likewise if you maintain an average consumption consume your weight three times over at least in dairy products which lead the list in tonnage much of this Is is in fluid form the balance in butter ice cream malted milk and similar products the young vegetable growers who were guests of the great atlantic and pacific tea company at this years banquet were par particularly ticul arly interested te in the assembled mass of fresh and canned vegetables which statistics indicate the average american consumes annually pot potatoes a of course lead in this division with a per capita consumption of pounds other items in the vegetable e division such as sweet potatoes peas corn beans spinach carrots lettuce tomatoes and all the others reach to a volume close to the weight of an average adult all grains consumed in the form of bread cereals and in liquid form treble the weight of the average adult were eating more fish figures indicate that fish consumption is gaining the figure used includes fresh and salt water fish canned fish frozen fish and all the various items such as oysters crabmeat crab meat lobsters and so on the quick freezing process w which high permits shipment to inland points of salt water fish is credited with bringing about some of the increase in demand the junior vegetable growers held their judging contest on the day of the banquet b thirty five te uns irom various states competed for seven trophies and 20 cash prizes |
