Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-21
TALK ON FOOD VALUES.
Cheaper Foods Of Equal Nutritive
Value for the Costlier Kinds.

cheaper EoO0S OF EQual Nutr1C1V0
Value for the Costlier Kinds.
From the New York Tribune.
ST have here pound Of chicken at fifty
cents and quart Of milk, at eight cents"
said Miss Johnson in the domestic science
class at the Brooklyn Institute yesterday
afternoon. Now, if they would supply an
equal amount Of energy. build up equal
amount Of tissue you can see that the eight
cents put in the milk would be equal to the
fifty cents put in chicken. But, as matter
Of fact, this is not The quart Of milk
will supply twice the tissue and twice the
energy of the chicken; SO you can see that
the eight cents put in milk. far nour-
ishment goes, is worth 81 put in chicken
"a calory," continued the lecturer. rep
resents the amount Of heat necessary to
raise quart of water four degrees Fahren-
heit It has been ascertained that the aver
age human being needs food enough to pro-
duce three thousand Galleries day. This
would include one hundred grams Of prote.d.
such as you find in meat. fish, peas, beans,
lentils, eggs, whole wheat bread cereals,
and so on. In addition, certain amount Of
carbohy drates and fats is necessary, bring
ing the total required to one pound a day.
A dietary is an arrangement of food which
supplies the proper proportion Of the diff
ferent food elements. If you have an in
come of $1,000 a year and spend 81 900 on
get just the same amount of nourishment
and satisfaction out Of $500, you are apt to
jump at the chance. 1t means $500 year
extra to spend on fun One could take
trip to Europe for $500. But to save that
$500 1t Is not necessary merely to study a
table Of food values and set before your
family cheaper SubStitu tes for the food they
are used to- Unless the substitute is rem
dered equally .palatable and delicious 1t
will never be adopted. There Is where the
art Of the cook comes in. There Is more
energy in baked beans at five cents
pound than in beefsteak at twenty-five
cents. But the baked beans must be rem
dered equally digestible and palatable,
they will not be eaten. And even then it
takes definite purpose and good, strong
will to break away from foods which we
know are not necessary, for the sake OF
saving money for some other purpose. We
get the beefsteak habit. We get other
habits In eating which grapple us with
hooks Of STEEL though they are not neces-
sary to either health or happiness. There
is nothing so cheap. in proportion to the
energy 1t furnishes. as milk. And this
refers not only to milk taken In the liquid
form. but to milk used in cooking. All the
custards. all the buildings made with milk
are cheaper when we consider the nutrf-
ment they furnish. Mrs. Richards of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. de-
clares that sufficient energy may be OBJ
tanned from dietary costing nine cents a
day per capita for any family living within
reach of the railroad. provided that the
food is properly cooked. the appetite good
and the tastes simple and natural.
'I think. though" said Miss johnson.
smiling. that the tastes would have to be
very simple. indeed. and the person work.
ing in the open air. to make a innocent
dietary continuously satisfactory. From
that we can go on through a ten fifteen,
twenty fifty-cent or 81 dietary. but for
twenty-five cents a day per capita the do
mestic scientist can furnish the average
city family with a menu containing suf-
f1cient variety for the entire year.
1--WE spend a good deal Of money not for
food values. but for the perishable nature
of what We buy. When We pay thirty-five
cents q dozen for oranges at this time OF
the year we are paying the grocer for all
he loses by freezing. We can get just the
same qualities in prunes at fifteen cents 4
pound. see you smile at the mention Of
prunes: but children can be taught to like
them. They can form the prune habit
Just as beneficial as the orange habit.
Every dietary must include fruit. but the
twenty -fve-cent dietary must substitute the
dried fruit for the fresh"