The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-29
FRUIT IN HOT WEATHER.


FRUIT IN HOT WEATHER.
Some People Cannot Eat Certain Kinds OF
| Fruits and Berries.
Danger lurketh in all that's fair and
beauteous, from woman, lovely woman,
to fresh and Understanding box
of strawberries lying on the counter in
a grocery.
| This is not the despairing cry Of a
nisanthrope, but a fact too true. 1t is
common talk that hives, with all their
attendants, strawberry rash, and indi-
gestion, are due to this red and juicy
berry. There are other fruits which
are eaten of very heartily during the
hot weather, and which are Reverthe-
less quite bad in their effects on many
| people. What is sauce for the goose 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
heating and heavy as food than flesh
| of animals or birds. This in itself is a
| mistaken idea, as many of the vegeta-
bles contain more heating material
than a small amount of flesh, which
would satisfy the appetite. But most
people will advocate vegetable diet
| for hot weather. The summer fruits
are, however, looked upon by many
people as very dangerous. Fer this
there is considerable reason based on
solid fact. The sight of a strawberry
| will alone cause a nausea in many peo-
pie, and sickness. the breaking out of
rash, rheumatism, etc., result from
eating the fruit.
Pineapples are forbidden by nature
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 year
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
full than the cholera breeding cucum-
Der, 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 a re-
porter recently called on DR.. F.
c. 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 they
are Of course organic, and therefore
easily split and assimilated with other
food in the alimentary canal. Il con-
slider fruits, eaten in moderation of
course, a very desira BILE article of food.
The berries are for the most part alb
solutely harmless The strawberry af-
fects some people very badly, but l
think that it is not the juice or the
acid of this berry, but the seeds, which
are SO indigestible.
MANY varieties of the fruit are COW
cred completely with small, pointed.
yellow and very hard seeds. From
these the whole trouble arises. They
do not digest, but lie in the stomach
and cause great deal of trouble there
and in the bowels. The effects from
eating them are, believe, largely of a
nervous order and due to the idiosyn-
crasies of the individual and not wholly |
assigna bic to the fruit / think there |
can be nothing in the acids that would |
create such trouble, for when taken as |
in drinks these effects do not appear. |
The blackbe is said to be constipat- |
ing, but there is little or no ground for |
the statement. The root of the black |
berry plant contains astringent mat |
ter, which. of course, would affect the |
bowels, but the berries do not, be- |
lieve. The larger varieties of these |
berries are very healthful if they are
really ripe. When green the interior |
is hard and solid. although the outside
may be black and attractive iii appear
ance. This hard, fibrous center is very |
indigestible and should never be eaten |
''Pineapples are said to hurt the
mouths of some people. l think that |
this is not from the juice. which is
wholesome enough ordinarily, but Is
due to the harsh. fbrous, and rough
irritates the tongue and mouth. The
poorer the pineapple the more trouble
from eating it. 4 ripe banana, ! think,
is good eating. 1t is peculiar in this
that it is as good in Albany as in
Florida. The trouble thai comes from
eating them is often because they are
too green. Here too the fbrous in
terror of the skin is 4 large factor in
the disorders which arise from eating
them The layer of thick. long strips
within the outer skin and partly al
herring to the banana itself IS what is
not the smooth fruit
Scraping it with knife carefully after
taking off the rind will remove this
trouble
Speaking OF cooling drinks he said
that lemonade was very good IN hot
weather It cooIs the mouth and throat.
and by acting on the salivary glands