Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
FRUIT IN HOT WEATHER.
D"'e Feople Cannot Eat Certain Kinds Df
Fruits and Berries,

TO fresh and wholesome-loolSino box
OF strawberries lying on the counter in
a grocery.
Ihis is not the despairing cry of a
misanthrope, but a fact too true If il
common talk that hives, with all their
attendants, strawberry rash, and indi-
gestion, are due to this red and iuicv
berry. There are other fruits which
are eaten of very heartily during the
not weather, and which are neverthe-
less quite bad in their effects on MANY
people. What is sauce for the poose is
In the case of fruits decidedly not sauce
for the gander
during the summer months meats
are pretty generally abandoned as food
for vegetables of all kinds, the suppo-
! sition being that the latter are less
heatlng and heavy as food than flesh
OF ANIMALS or birds. This in itself is n
mistaken idea, as many of the vegeta-
nles contain more heating material
| than small amount of flesh. which
| would satisfy the appetite. But most
people will advocate n vegetable diet
for hot weather. The summer fruits
are, however looked upon by MANY
people as very dangerous. For this
there is considerable reason based ON
solid fact. The sight of n strawberry
VIII alone cause nausea in many peo-
pie, and sickness, the breaking out of
rash, rheumatism, etc, result from
eating the fruit
Pineapples are forbidden by nature
to many people who can eat strawber-
ries with impunity. A single piece of
the pine will cause the tongue of such |
people to swell up, the mouth to burn |
and become parched, and the work of |
the salivary glands is impaired Ba-
nanas, very popular fruit all the wear
round, but the cheapness of which in
summer makes it the most freely eaten
OF all fruits, are condemned out and
out by many leading physicians. They
claim that eaten raw it is more harm
full than the cholera breeding cucum-
ber, and that fried or cooked it is ut
terly worthless as food.
These facts are known, by report at
any rate, to many people, and re-
porter recently called on DR.. f.
I. Curtiss to get the facts au-
thenticated. The doctor said that in
the first place the fruit acids" as
they are called can scarcely be consid-
cred as such from the fact that thev
are of course organic, and therefore
easily split and assimilated with other
food in the alimentary canal. ~ con-
slider fruits, eaten in moderation of
course. very desirable article of food.
The berries are for the most part alb
'olutely harmless. The strawberry al
ects some people very badly. but
'htnk that it is not the juice or the
lcid of this berry, but the seeds, which
ire so indigestible.
Many varieties of the fruit are COW
red completely with small. pointed.
'ellow and very hard seeds. From
hese the whole trouble arises They
70 not digest, but lie in the stomach
nd cause great deal of trouble there
nd in the bowels. The effects from
ating them are, l believe, largely of /
ervoCs order and due to the idiosvn- :
rastes of the individual and not wholly /
ssignable to the fruit. | think there
an be nothing in the acids that would 1
reate such trouble, for when taken as .
l drinks these effects do not appear.
he blackberry is said to be constipat- >
lg, but there is little or no ground for l,
he statement. The root of the black =
erry plant contains astringent mat
ar, which, of course, would affect the II
owels, but the berries do not. | be-
eve. The larger varieties of these
erries are very healthful if they are
,ally ripe. When green the interior
hard and solit, although the outside
ay be black and attractive in appear-
nee. This hard, hbrous center is very .
ldigestible, and should never be eaten. y
"Pineapples are said to hurt the ::
ouths of some people. | think that =:
lis is not from the Juice. which is q
hoiesome enough ordinarily. but is =,
lie to the harsh, tibrous, and rough :,
iture of the fruit, which scrapes and 7
ritates the tongue and mouth. The -
'orer the pineapple the more trouble -
ON eating it. ripe banana, / think -,
good eating. 1t is peculiar in this ~
at 1T is as good in Albany as in !.
orida. The trouble that comes from - ~
ting them is often because they are ~ =.
o green. Here too the fibrous in =. -
rior of the skin is a large factor in =, =.
e disorders which arise from eatinr -, -,
EN-. The layer of thick long strips =
thin the outer skin and partly ad- ~ ~
ring to the banana itself is what is ~ ~
not the smooth fruit. ii' i'
raping it with knife carefully after ~
king off the rind will remove this oe
Ouble." IN
Speaking of cooling drinks he said ie he
at lemonade was very good in hot u pe
,ather 1t cools the mouth and throat. VI. w
d by acting on the salivary glands il m
cps the throat moist and healthy. ce
lie acid of the lemon he thought es- co
cially good, only it need not be SO eE g.,
'ong as to affect the teeth. IAN acid III
lte of the stomach is coming to be e pe
'ognized as very good state. 1t VI
is as a preventative of cholera, for l,ii ni
3 germs are killed and eaten up bv W. W.
2 acid. l would not recommend eat tri i
: whole lemon undiluted, for that Sc
'uld concentrate the acid and render ro
action on the stomach very bad. mt