The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-29
Of Interest to HOusekeepers
The RAW Eco DIET

The raw egg diet is gaining a great
hold on Fashionable New Workers The
advocates claim to obtain more ifnne-
date and material benefit from this
food than any other. The healthfaI-
ness of the custom has been given ad-
ditionai emphasis by the declaration Of
pure food advocates in their recent
New York convention that the only
pure food known is the fresh egg. The
raw egg eaters declare that the egg is
spoiled by any kind of cooking and its
benefits can be obtained only when
eaten raw. To back their conclusions
many researches have recently been
made on the subject and it has been
found that tourists in UNEMPLOYED trop-
zeal countries have been able to re-
tain perfect health throughout the
most trying exposures to heat and wet
by means of dieting on raw eggs An
instance is mentioned where all in
party of explorers became dangerously
i'll excepting one who ate nothing but
uncooked eggs.
Believers in the new diet contend
that the egg should be eaten as soon
after it is laid a possible. Several diff
ferent methods of serving the eggs
are in vogue, the most popular of
which is in sherry wine or with vim
egar. A very little of the wine or vim
egar is required in a glass merely to
give a zest to the flavor of the egg.
Its benefits would doubtless be greater
without any of these accomplishments. |
When served with vinegar a drop of
the liquid is first poured into an empty |
wine glass. Into this the egg is broken. |
Then the top is covered with another |
drop or two of vinegar and sprinkling |
Of salt and pepper. The egg is then
swallowed whole. Persons who have |
not tried the diet will be surprised at
the ease with which the egg slips down |
the throat as well as the pleasant |
taste it leaves in the mouth. 1t is de- |
clared that half of the benefits of the |
egg is lost when the yolk is broken in /
eating. The eggs should be eaten be- |
fore meals. especially before breakfast. |
but not every day. An every day diet
is said to be dangerous because of the |
superabundance of sulphur it would !
produce in the system. It is advisable |
one or two weeks at time ard then
to keep it UP steadily for a few days
or a week again
Raw eggs are much more easily d.
gested than cooked eggs and the more
they are cooked the harder they are to :,
digest: hard boiled and fried essgs be-
ing the most difficult.
The stomach will digest raw egg
in from one and a half to two hours.
Soft-boiled and roasted eggs require
from two and a half to three hours, Il
while hardboiled or fried eggs must
be allowed from three and a half to Il
four hours for digestion. Eggs furnish
q good substitute for meat II
Eggs are said to be perfect food, Il
the same as milk-that is, containing
all the food elements necessary for the
growth and maintenance of the young
chick, just as milk does for the young
animal. While it is true of course,
hat the egg does contain all the ele-
neEts necessary for the growth and
of the young chick, yet
t would not follow that these elements
ire in the right proportion for the sole
of an adult person. That
Eggs are splendid food is not to be
Questioned. but that eggs alone would
furnish sufficient diet Tor a grown
person is hardly probable.
Eggs consist of proteine and fat.
water and mineral matter 1t is the
,roteine or heterogeneous matter that
,uilds up and repairs the tissues of the
,ody While the fat supplies energy
The white of an egg is often said to be
ure albumen but it also contains phos-
horic acid and sodium chloride or
ommon salt. The yolk contains the
atty part of the egg, phosphorus, cal
ium, magnesium, potassium and iron.
,ggs also contain sulphur, and this
robably accounts for the dark stain
eft by eggs on silver, the sulphur COM
lg in contact with the silver forming
liver sulphide.