New-York tribune., 1903-01-14
TALK ON FOOD VALUES
Cheaper Foods Of Equal Nutr1tiUe
Valle for the CoSther Kinds.

ct have here pound Of chicken at so cents and
quart OF milk eight cents said Miss Johnson in
the domestic class at the Brooklyn Institute
yesterday afternoon. Now, if they would supply an
equal amount Of energy build up equal amount
Of tissue you that the eight cents put in the
milk would be equal to the % cents put in chicken
But as matter of fact, this is not so The quart
of milk viii supply twice the tissue and twice the
energy Of the chicken so you that the eight
cents put in milk as far as nourishment goes, is
worth 81 put in chicken
"A calory." continued the lecturer. represents
the amount of heat necessary 10 raise a quart OF
water 4 degrees Fahrenheit. It has been ascer-
taned that the average human being needs food
enough produce three thousand calories day.
This would include hundred grams OF proteid.
such as you find in meat, fish. peas, beans lents,
eggs whole wheat bread. cereals and so In
addition a certain amount Of carbohydrates and
is necessary bringing the total required to one
pound q day. A dietary is arrangement of food
which supplies the proper proportion of the differ
ent food elements If you have an income OF 5000
a year and spend 81 600 food and some one tells
you that you can get just the same amount of
nourfshment and satisfaction out Of 500. you
apt to jump at the chance It $500 q year
extra TO spend on fun. One could take trip to
Europe for $500 that $500 il is not
necessary merely TO study table Of food values
and before your family cheaper substitutes for
the food they are used 10. Unless the substitute IS
rendered equally palatable and delicious ii will
never be adopted. There IS where the art of the
cook comes There is more energy in baked beans
q five pound than in beefSteak at . cents
But the baked beans must be rendered equally
digestible and palaLable they viii not be eaten
And even then il takes a definite purpose and a
good. strong will to break away from foods which
know not necessary. for the sake or saving
money for some other purpose We get the peer
steak habit. We get other habits in eating which
grappe Us with hooks OF steel though they are not
necessary to either health happiness There is
furnishes milk And this refers not only to milk
taken in the liquid form, but to milk used in COOK
inz All the custards. all the puddings made
with milk are cheap when we consider the nutr1-
roent they furnish. Mrs Richards. Of the Massa-
chsets Institute Of Technology, declares that sum
Gent energy may obtained from dietary costing
nine cents day per capita for any family living
within reach the railroad. provided that the food
is properly cooked. the appetite good and the tastes
simple and natural .,,
5eed and the person working in the open air. 70
make A innocent dietary continuously satisfactory
From that we can go through a TO- 10. D. 90 cent
or 81 dietary: for % cents day per capita the
domestic scientist furnish the average city
FAMILY with containing sufficient variety Tor
the entire year. - -. e. .5
values but for the perishable nature OF what we
INV When we pay b cents a dozen for oranges at
ri7iS time Of year paying the grocer Tor
- r,e loses bv freezing. We get just the same
Qualities in prunes at Is cents pound see you
n,ii al the mention of prunes but children can De
sII.5t 20 like them. They form the prune
fa7t. inst as beneficial the orange habit Every
e4- must include fruit, but the twenty-hve-ceIlt
5etary must substitute the dried fruits Tor the