Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-26
A WORD TO THE WISE.
4ePopular Ignorance of the Relative Food
 Value of Wheat and Flour

While flour is so universal and impor-. tant an article in the diet of the people, too few are sufficiently informed as to it's real food value-and fewer still Whyg from the very fact of It's being whites it. ejs an impoverished food. E
 The present generation were born andi bred into the idea that the best flour must of necessity be the whtest. Long habit and use has strengthened this Eo- ton into a deep-roOted prejudice, which has been recognized and catered to for eASears past by. commercial usage, and 9sha Improvement given to milling Tor this special purpose has chased out of, eefour about everything possessing 4thei Amore vital flood properties because of y their color
 In the popular appreciation kernel of wheat, in its structure and food conf- 6p0sition, is the same all through-ikE Saspotatoe 2 or chestnut for nstance-hav- hing skin or shuck which Is better tol feed to animals than to throw away; and that differences in flour arise not s9 much from any essential difference in food value as from the skill used in milling in keeping any particles of wheat having any color out of the four-tte greatest skill therefore producing the Whitest
 This all comes from lack of knowledge; eHr@ts of the' real wonderful structure of the wheat kernel; second. ignorance of %the fact, established by. modern. chemisr Atry, that the fifteen or more elements found in the human system are also found, and about in the same propor- tons in matured wheat grain; third, further ignorance of the fact that these Varying elements are not distributed alike throughout the kernel but are re- @speetively located in different parts of :. it. the white starchy portion being in the center, while the vital and also darker clements are between this white center and the thin outer husR; fourth, still fur s,ther ignorance Of the fact that these vi- &atal clements, those which speedily feed the nerve structure, brain, etc., are never white in color, but are always darker than the interior, and will not make white flour under any circumstances.
 It is a fact established by modern chemistry that the fifteen or more ele-, ments found in the human system are also found and in about the same pro- portion, in a matured wheat kernel. Wheat has been the main staff of life e throughout all ages, and 1t has only been within the memory of the present gener- ation that pure white flour has been used. Color in flour is altogether scnti - ment. It makes the flour no better, but on the contrary Jess nutritious. Pure white flour has been robbed of the gluten of wheat, and flour thus deprived has d been robbed of most of it's blood-nlak- ing materials. The vital elements of the wheat kernel which specially feed the nerve structure, the brain, etc., are never white in color, and will not make white 2, flour under any circumstances. . n Baron von Liebig predicted that this excessive starch eating would re- suit in disaster to the race, the truth of which is now being plainly seen in many, 2 directions in the changes of the types of disease from strong to weak, in the all most universal exhaustion of the nerve force (which never before in history was so taxed as by the American people,, in the great prevalence of nervous diseases, and the sudden breaking down of persons apparently in the full tide of health and vigor They find 1t hard to fight the bat ties of life on only about 25 per cent of nerve food.
 Now a word for Washburn Crosbys Flour, made from the largest and great est system of mills in the world. Their expert millers and testers have travelled the world over studying the newest and 7 best methods to make Gold Medal Flour the best in the world. That they have D succeeded is well shown in the fact that ., they have taken all first premiums of- J fefed in any and all baking contests which they 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