The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-11-05
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THE APPLE AS A FOOD
Use Our Apple Crop

merce.
Pennsylvania is blessed this year
with an apple crop the size of which
is unprecedented in our history. It is
not timely therefore, to return to the
good old days from which our war ex-
perience diverted us, and store away
in our cellars winters supply of this
most beautiful fruit at this harvest
season, while the quantity is great and
the prices low.
May l not by this means remind the
retail dealers and others that it is their
duty to induce the public to buy ap-
pies in larger quantities for futNre use
so that this immense crop may move
off without Cutting our channels of
trade, to the end of utilizing to the
fullest extent the bounteous crop that
Nature has provided us.
Apples Are HeaIthfuI
By DR.. Edward Martin, Commits
sioner of Health, Pennsylvania.
The apple as fruit has been large
ly neglected because it has been both
cheap and available. When complete
ly ripe, in it's raw state, it is as d.
gestible and as desirable as any fruit
and much pleasanter and easier. to
take than many of them. Also, it has
keeping qualities which commend it.
The malic acid which it contains
makes it slightly laxative; it supplies
vitamines; either baked or stewed
it forms an admirable breakfast dish:
the soft part is particularly available
for children, who often avoid it be-
cause they are so frequently told it is
not good for them. For most young
people, raw scraped apple, particular
ly if the scraping is done by someone
else, has peculiar charm.
Considering the large crop of this
season, the excellent quality, and the
desirable varieties which have been
raised, it would seem that both econ
omy and health could be well served
by free purchase of this most whole
some and desirable food
Food Value of Apples
By Pearl Mcdonald, Extension De-
partment of Home Economics, State
College, Pennsylvania.
Long ago people learned by expert
ence and observation that apples are
wholesome and valuable food and
those who used them freely in the diet
were usually in good health. We now
know why this is true From the stud
les of nutrition specialists we have
learned what the apple and other
fruits contain and how they meet GER
tain food needs of the body. Fruit
furnishes mineral matter such as iron,
phosphorus, ETC., which is necessary
in regulating the digestion and absorb
ton of food; elimination of waste
products and other processes such as
the building and maintaining the It's
sues.
Fruits are a source of supply for the
protective substances-the so-called
vitamines-more particularly the c.
vitamine which is corrective for scurvy
"a disease found in latent form in in
fants more especially bottle fed babies.
Fruits, together with cereals and
vegetables, furnish fibre-needed TO
give bulk to the diet so that the food
mass will move freely through the d.
gestive tract and the waste products
be thrown off from the body.
Fruits contain acids and character
istic fiavors which make them a de-
sirable food. They stimulate the ap-
petite and give variety as well.
Apples furnish a considerable
amount of sugar in a desirable form.
Sugar serves as fuel in the body nutri-
ton. If people used apples generous
ly, they would need little additional
sweets in the form of sugar. For chill
dren, this is important because fruit
sugars are better than cane sugar for
them. There would be less trouble
with decaying teeth if children ate less
candy and more apples.
Nutrition specialists recommended
fruit juices for the growing baby as
soon as they can be given such as ap-
pies, oranges and prunes. First, the
juice is given, then as the child is
older, the fruit pulp is used and later
the whole fruit. Throughout the
growing time of the child's life, the
apple will be found valuable part of
the diet. For children, they are especi-
ally good baked or as sauce. For
school lunches and for the lunches of
the working man, the apple is one of
the very best fruits to use.
Because of the food values as given
above the apple should be used more
generously in the diet. In a year of
plenty. the apple is one of the most