The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-06
RAISINS, THEIR NUTRITIVE VALUE
AND THEIR PLACE In THE DIET

One pound of raisins has an energy.
producing food value of from fifteen
hundred and fifty to sixteen hund-
red and five calories, or approx
mately one hundred calories to each
ounce of the edible portion. Its
protein value, according to analysis
: of the most noted dietitions, is two
and six tenths per cent; fat, three
and three tenths per cent; and the
percentage of carbohydrates is sew
| enty six and one tenth per cent.
This is, indeed, an important fact
now that sugar, heretofore our main
source of carbohydrates, is so
scarce and expensive.
There is being put on the market
now raisin sugar, which is not so
! familiar to US. The best grades of
raisin sugar have a decided raisin
flavor and are we'll classed as lux
ury. Here, indeed, we see great
future for the raisin!
Raisins. are an invaluable food.
The nitrogenous matter equals about
half of high grade wheat flour, and
the process of curing the raisin has
rendered it the most easy to digest.
Quite recently there has appeared
on the market a seedless raisin. 1t
lis dried, white, seedless grape, Of
medium size grown in California. In
comparison on an energizing, caloric
basis one pound Of these raisins
equals six pounds Of apples, five
pounds of bananas, four and one
fourth pounds of potatoes and three
fourth pounds of the edible portion
of fish, two pounds Of eggs, and one
and one-third pounds of beef. But
look on the economical side-what
a difference in price! Note that rais-
ms cost ten to twelve cents a pound
and then compare them in monetary
value with the foods mentioned.
There might be an objection to
raisins on account of the seeds, for
some persons fear to eat them, and
especially to give them to small
children, because of the presence OF
these seeds. It is said, that the
seeds may lodge in the appendix and
cause that very common and much
dreaded disease, appendicitis. But
on the whole, these fears may be re-
garded as entirely groundless, while
the seeds of fruits may in some
cases have been found in the ap-
pendix when it has been removed,
| they can hardly be- regarded as the
lreal cause Of the trouble. In gener-
| al, we may say that the seeds of
small fruits will be sent out from
the body without doing any harm.
Larger seeds, such as those of the
lapple and the melon are objection
al, but these are not usually sWal-
lowed. It cannot be said that to
|swallow the seeds is absolutely with
out danger, yet the chance Of harm
is so small that we should not fol-
THAT reason refuse to eat the raisin
| In the same way, play might be re.
garded. as dangerous. Boys and
girls are often hurt, sometime Sc:
Iriously and fatal at play. But thai
lis no reason for forbidding children
Ito play. In short, with watchful
ness and care we may eat the raisir
with the seed, but now that the
lseedless raisin has been put on the
market, we can consume them.
Raisin juice is solution of fooc
|elements of the finest qualities ready
lfor immediate absorption into the
1body and use of the tissues. The
Juice is obtained by boiling poune
of raisins in pint and half Of wa
tier, and it contains twenty times al
\ =
Imnch food value as beef tea. Be
lsides, the raisin juice is absolutely
free from unwholesome properties
THAT is found in the beef tea as waste
products, uric acid, urea, carnaine
land other tissue wastes; and tht
lputrifactive bacteria germs; ant
,lastley, the trichnoe, tape worm, ant
form the possibility Of carrying
Ispecifc disease, which are Away
present in animal flesh.
| A child needs more of the energ!
giving foods than an adult, for h
4 is more active. His bones need min
Ieral matter to develop properly, AM
Ihe must have tissue building food
as we'll. For the most part Of tn
day the child during the adolescen
period is sitting and when exercis
lis taken, it is usually for very shor
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