The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-01-19

Distortion No. I stated that we have
been accustomed 10 advertise Grapefruit
and Postum as "cure-alls for everything.
1t has never been the policy of thi.
Company to advertise Grape-Nuts or Pos
tum to cure anything.
We say that in cases where coffee disa,
grees and is causing sickness its dismissal
will remove the cause of the trouble, and
We suggest the use of Postum for the
reason that it furnishes a hot palatable
morning beverage, and contains natural
elements from the grain which can be
used 10y nature to assist in rebuilding
nerve centers that coffee may have broken
down
Likewise Grapc-Nuts food does not
cure anything, but it does assist nature
tremendously in rebuilding, provided the
undigestiAe food that has been used is
Discontinued and Grape Nuts taken in its
place.
CHARGE No. 2 states that the passage
of the Rational Food & Drugs Act COM
PEELED us to drop from the packages some
assertions regarding the nutritive value
of Grape-Nuts.
We have never been ~"compelled" to
make any change.
Since the BEGINNING it has been a uuiver-
sal rule 10 print clearly on every package
sxactly what the contents are made Of.
Before the passage of the Pure Food
Law the packages stated that Grape-Nuts
food was made cf wheat and harlev.
We did not esteem the small amount
of salt and yeast as Of value enough to
speak of, but after the new Law came
In we BECAME as technical AZ t. Off
Gals at Washington and added the words
"yeast" and salt ALTHOUGH we have
no recollection of being asked to.
We believed that our statement that
Grape-Nuts will supply elements to nour-
fish tho brain md nerve centers is true
and bring authorities to support the fact.
Some state chemists believed this a
gross cSaEgeration and inasmuch as the
Food Dept. Mt Washington could easily
harass grocers, pending a trial on the
disputed question. we concluded that
much The better wav would be to elm
lnate FROM orr packages such claims.
however certain we may be that the
claims are true.
Another statement objected to read as
follows:
"The systnm wiz absorb a greater
amount Of nourishmeut from one pound
OF Grape-Nuts than from ten pounds Of
meat, wheat, oats, or bread"
Some Department chemists deceive
themselves as well as the public.
"Caloried" is the word which defines a
unit Of heat determined by the amount
necessary to raise one kiloRrnm of water
one decree centigrade. On jhis basis a
table of calories is prepared showing the
percentage of different kinds Of food.
Butter shows $50; Grape-Nuts 1896:
milk 90. Remember the statement on
the package spoke of the nourishnent tn
svstsm would absorb, but did not speak Of
the ~calories Of heat contained in it, for
the heat is not nourishment, and the
nourishment cannot be judged by the
number of heat units. notwithstanding
the fact that certain chemists would have
the public believe so.
As an Illustration: Attempt 10 feed a
man sixty days on butter alone, with its
$50 c~slories. The man would die be-
fore the experiment had nun sixty days.
Then. take Grape-Nuts with 3.96 and
milk with 9.N,-the two combined equal
t~66-sbout one-half the number Of Gallo
ries coptained in butter. TIE man fed for
sixty days on this food would be well
nOurished, and could live not only sixty