Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-25
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A WORD TO THE WISE.
Popular Ignorance of the Relative Food
 < Value of Wheat and Flour ]

,s While flour is so universal and impor- ( tant an article in the diet of the people, S too few are sufficiently informed as to It's ( real food value--and fewer still. Why, i from the very fact of it's being white, it ts is an impoverished food.
 e11 aThe present generation were born and E bred into the idea that the best flour must of necessity be the whitest. Long EShabit and use has strengthened this no-. ,ssstion into a dcep-rooted prejudice, which "a has been recognized and catered to Tor r wears past by commercial usage, and >-the improvement given to milling .Ior this special purpose has chased out or -four about everything possessing the ,- more vital flood properties because of l.,z their color.
 5 @In the popular appreciation kernel of wheat, in its structure and food com
 position, Is the same all through-like I a potatoe or chestnut, for instance-hav- # ing skin or shuck which is better to feed to animals than to throw away; ana ( that differences in flour arise not so V much from any essential difference in e. food value as from the skill used in G milling in keeping any particles Of wheat v having any color out of the fiour-the A greatest skill therefore producing the sewhitest
 f-ae This all comes from lack of knowledge; ~ first of the real wonderful structure of Cs5 the wheat kernel; second. ignorance of eastfe fact established by modern chemis-
  ie.-found in the human system are also <ssfound and about in the same propor- ta tions in a matured wheat grain; third, r further ignorance of the fact that these 1s-varying clements are not di 5tributed lsss alike throughout the kernel, but are re- = spectvely located in different parts of [ 1t, the white starchy portion being Tn the ,Ss@center, while the vital and also darker V.- elements are between this white center f and the thin outer husk; fourth, still fur ss.ther ignorance of the fact that these vii < tai elements, those which speedily feed the nerve structure, brain, etc, are never ~esAhite in color, but are always darker than the interior, and will not make V white flour under any circumstances. x III is a fact established by modern
 ciemistry that the fifteen or more ele- % rnents found in the human system are < also found, and in about the same pro @saportion, in a matured wheat kernel. efWsheat has been the main staff of life - throughout all ages, and it has only been gsssyithin the memory of the present gener- essatfon that pure white flour has been @ Used. Color in flour is altogether senti- c msnt. It makes the flour no better, but TAon the contrary less nutritious. Pure esWfifte flour has been rC bbed of the gluten Ss tyf e5wheat, and four thus deprived has |,ste6t, robbed of most of it's blood-mak- sss404>m aterials. The vital clements of the S-Sfifeat kernel which specially feed the M hefse structure, the prain, etc., are nSver Swhite in color, and will not make white [ fibIr under any circumstances.
 ~ FBaron von Liebig predicted that this sa.exeessive- starch flour eating would re- @sstift in disaster to the race, the truth of = wtSch is now ing plainly seen in many MzEayections in the changes of the types of Ssdfsease from strong to weak. in the al- % %.fhast universal exhaustion of the nerve % fpfes (which never before in history was
 Sogtaxed as by the American people), in 1Ethc1great prevalence of nervous diseases, xy and the sudden breaking down of persons &Apisarenty in the full tide of health and sssx5Nor They find it hard to fight the hat $ties of life on only about 25 per cent of 6 HefSe food
 s sss Now a word for Washburn Crosby's ~ Flour made from the largest and great ss-eftasystem of mills in the world. Their s~eSrert miiIers and testers have travelled ~thel world over studying the newest and
 bes methods to make Gold Medal Flour E-thTs best in the world. That they have <tgu7ceeded is well shown in the fact that @ thsS have taken. all first premiums of-
 ferad in any and all baking. contests
 which thsy have. competed for in many
 years. The last one, this year, in which
 there were twenty five hundred entries,
 they took both first and second premiums ~l[sChace's ~ City Rand, esLGke, Sunday. Phil He