Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-24

,CALORIE-Any OF several units the amount
gram Of water one degree centisrade-Weo'
and animals-Prot Alonso p. Taylor. N. D."
Universitp OF Pennsylvania
Samp Ever hear OF Il?
Bid it welcome in the home In the
same breath. adeu TO potatoes and the
high prices they command at the present
time.
Samp. II is predicted. will soon reign
supreme over King spud'" or course
there are reasons Samp Is just one-third
cheaper than potatoes at the present time
More. each pound contains nearly seven
times as many calories as pound OF pota-
toes. In other words, II supplies the body
with almost seven times the amount OF heat
energy or nourishes just that many more
times.
No samp is not a patent food. nor is 1t
new. II is just plain hominy OF coarse
grade OF course, the corner grocer VIII
look mystifed when he hears the word
samp. But he has II stored in his bins
under the label of coarse homny. The
price is four cents per pound. Potatoes are
about six cents per pound.
POTATOES NOT NECESSITY
Samp. or coarse homny. is indorsed by
the Health Extension Society and by the
learned professors, who know 1ust how
many calories a person must eat eacH DAY
and in which common foods they are found
i'm abundance From them comes the IN
formation that potatoes are not i1dis-
pensabe food They assert that to regard
potatoes as necessity In diet Is notion
bunk"
To illustrate the supervalue of samp over
potatoes az food prominent doctor ana
professor of physiological chemistry VINO
has devoted much time in experimenting
nd udNyip "a
nlshes the following table
one pound OF potatoes costing six
cents. contains about $50 calores.
One pound Of samp, costing four
cents. contains 1900 or more calores.
A person obtains 375 calories for one
cent when he buys samp. and hfty-hVe
calories for a cents worth of potatoes.
Samp at four cents is nearly seven
times cheaper than potatoes at SIX
cents.
During the present day Sky y-high" prices.
when the housewife is daily facing the food
problem, it is well to know something about
calories and where they are found in the
greatest number. The food scientists say
that the average maintenance ration or
adults Is somewhere in the vicinity of 5000
or 1000 calories per day.
CALORIE REQUIREMENTS
Infants during their first year require
about SOC to 500 calories each day. An
adult OF about $50 pounds, living in a room
about the same temperature as his body
resting, requires about 1900 calories each
day. 4 person performing light occupa-
ton should consume $500 calorles For
medium work. 5000 calories hard work
1000 to 5000 calores, and for excessive
work a person may consume as many as
5000 of these energy units.
Samp is one or the high average nour-
ishing or fuel-producing foods. Ten or
eleven cents of samp will satisfy the needs
Of the average man for one day. II Is
cheaper even than the much-heralded rice
which sells at five cents a pound and con-
tains 1900 ealories.
An ANALYSIS OF the ingredients that form
samp reveals the fact that 1t possesses
about eight per cent OF proteins, sixty-slx
per cent starches. a bit OF salt and the re-
mainder water. Again the potato is forced
TO suffer In comparison. Sound potatoes con-
tain a little less than one and one-half per
cent OF protein and twenty per cent of
starch.
Under the scientific study that has been
devoted to the food problems from an eco
nomic standpoint, the potato has lost much
of its former prestige. Butter, even AT the
rate of sixty cents per pound Is cheaper
per calorie than potatoes AZ SIX cents per
pound one pound of butter contains $500
calories, or sixty calories for one cent. five
more than obtained from a cents worth OF
potatoes. Cheap cuts of meat, at twenty
cents per pound furnish sixty calories for
one cent A pound of potatoes is twice as
expensive under the calorie scale as loaf
Of bread costing the same price six cents.
They cost eight times more than oatmeal
at eight cents pound.
Head and shoulders above all these foods
stands samp, however. with its great energy
producing value and low cost. Try it, |
Soak 1t in water, then let it boil until it
swells. much after the manner of oatmeal
or tapioca 1t is generally served with |
milk and sugar.
Many persons already have started |
samping it" for the benefit Of both their |
health and their pocketbooks. News OF the |
substitute for potatoes has caused run on |
several grocery stores. where it is reported |
samp or hominy sales have increased nearly |
200 per cent during the last two weeks.