Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-25
MusctE-BuILDlNG ELEMENTS OF
MEAT PRESENT IN THE DIFF
FERENT VARIETIES.
COMPLETE DIET OF BANANA
AND susTENANcE IN
THE DATE.

per cent of carbohydrates IN wafer
melons to 1871 per cent in plums,
while the same scientific authority
| (Atwater) tells us that protein, the
muscle building element OF meat, ap-
pears also in fruit to the amount OF
two-tenths of 1 per cent in water
melons to Is per cent in figs and cur
rants. writer in the National Food
| Magazine says.
The greatest quantity of fat, to the
extent of IL per cent, is offered by
grapes and the minimum of fat in
fruit occurs as one-tenth of l per
cent in watermelons and oranges.
But the greatest advantage of
fruit. perhaps, is that it offers us pure
water, for which we do not need
filter, to the amount of from nearly
| so per cent in berries to over 80 per
cent in watermelOns.
The food value-that is, the nutri-
tive force of fruit-depends upon and
consists chiefly in its carbohydrates.
which, in the main, are sugar.
| Among twenty different fruits, men,
toned in Atwater's table of the chem
| ical composition of fruit, only six
kinds carry between 1 and III per
cent of protein.
This article deals only with fresh
fruit.
1t is the lusciousness Of fruit, to-
gether with its nutritiveness, the com
bination of which in color and forrS
appeals through the eye to the palate,
which produces its almost universal
demand in the summer months of the
year, independent of a knowledge of
the nourishment it contains.
Fruits Forming Complete Diet.
There are fruits such as the date
and the plantain, Of which the ba-
mana is variety, which alone contain
sufficient nutriment to sustain life.
And this fact will explain the gigan-
tic increase in our country in the
sale and consumption of bananas.
1t would, however, be an injustice
to fruit, which in the shape of an ap-
pie is connected with the start of
mankind, not to emphasize the
equally important fact that the salts
and organic acids which it contains
tend to improve the quality of the
blood-and E'blood is the life"
The value of the water in fruit is
demonstrated as wildly and conclu-
sively as possible by the saving from
death by thirst of member of fam
lily whom | know on what was then
the Great American desert, and even
to this day is still in part the home of
the cactus, bunch grass, the tarantula
and the horned toad, by the finding
of the fruit of the cactus, the "prickly
pear" which today now and then
finds its way into our markets, but
which was not considered by Atwater
in his table of the average chemical
composition of fresh fruit.
Since the requirement bv the
United States of noncontiguous, tropi
cal territory and closer relations
with the Independent West India isles,
We have been frequently offered in
our market fruits the names and
looks as well as the taste of which
have to be acquired"
Thus far their principal value here
consists in advertising the progress
siveness of the dealer in fruit, who
decorates with them his attractive
show window, but finds it a slow. up
hill work to create for them a profit.
able demand, even among our rich.
Only one thing about our fruit is to
be regretted, and that is its high re
tail price to the ultimate, consumer.
The ultimate" consumer is brand
new, and, of course, misnomer. but
the high price of fruit at retail. alas.
is old
Wiley on Food Standards.
The latest definition of fruits was
submitted by our DR.. H. w. Wiley to
the great worlds pure-food confer
ence at Geneva, Switzerland, which
considered the repression of adultera-
tons of alfmentary and pharama.
ceutical products. Among his defini.
tons of food standards he proposed
this:
Fruits are the clear, sound, edi-
Bile, feshy qualification of plants.
distinguished by their sweet, acid and
ethereal flavors.''
Under certain conditions the use of
fresh Gas well as cooked) fruit is not
only contraindicated but prohibited
In cases OF diabetes, for instance, the
only raw fruit your doctor will allow
you, and that in moderate quantities
is oranges. This prohibition is
caused by the sugar in the carbobv.
drates of fruit, which sugar would he
poison to diabetic.
Oranges, Lemons and Pineapples.
Oranges and lemons are not only
valuable by reason of their potash
salts, but especially for their citric
acid. A case of paralysis of the en-
tire right side is known to me. where
the juice of oranges, adopted as 4 reg
ular diet, appeared to perform won