The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-11-15
THE STORY OF TOMATOES
-CoPIAH'S LEADING CROP
Extracts from Address by DR.. G. w
Wagner Of Chicago, Former Cap
tain in U. S. A. Medical Corps.

DO you know that the greatest
vegetable in the world is the Toma-
to?
DO you know that doctors now
agree that
/. Tomatoes are the richest OF
all foods in the vitamines.
2. Tomatoes are the most won
derful and effective blood cleanser OF
all foods known to man.
8. Tomatoes are the richest OF all
vegetables in the natural health ac-
ids which keeps our stomachs and
intestines in condition.
A. Tomatoes are the most extra
ordinary corrective for the kidneys
(what the doctors call a diuretic)-
gentle, natural stimulant which
helps wash away the poisons which
cause disease and contaminate our
systems.
S. Tomatoes are now prescribed
for Diabetes and Brights' disease.
Medical authority tells you in SO
many words that tomatoes not only
have all the vitamines, but actually
more of them than any other fruit OF
vegetable, and in the very form
which nature likes the best and us
es most. And still more wonderful,
these same authorities tell you that
canned tomatoes are to be preferred
to the fresh.
RAISING CHILDREN ON
TOMATOES
Do you know that at the Child
ren's Memorial Hospital in Chicago
Zone of the most famous institutions
in our country the physicians there
feed tomatoes and tomato juice to
little suffering waits and starving
infants (not milk, mind you. but to-
matoes) and the babies are growing
in their cribs, bright eyed, rosy
checked and-getting well?
Tomatoes are the most easily and
quickly digestible of all the fruits
and vegetable known to man. To-
matoes pass through the stomach al
most at once and their rich natural
elements are taken up into the sys-
tenn with a rapidity that is in strik-
ing contrast to the digestibility OF
other foods. Who says all this?
Where is the proof? Well, you'll
find it in no less prominent publi-
cation that the Journal of the A
merican Medical Association.
THREE VALUABLE ACIDS IN
TOMATOES.
There are three wonderful acids in
tomatoes. Some vegetables contain
but one. Others have scarcely a
trace but tomatoes contain three. One
is malic acid, which is the acid
found in apples. Another is citric
acid, which is the sour of the lemon,
the. lime and other fruits. Citric
acid is both antiseptic and diuretic
beneficial to the kidneys.) The
third acid in tomatoes is phosphoric
acid, SO often used in the treatment
of neuralgia, nervous disorders and
other disturbances of health. 1t is
because Of the presence of these ac-
ids that the tomato has for centu-
ries been used to relieve pain.
DR.. Arnold Lorand, of Carlsbad,
already quoted, tells you that this
healthful acidity of tomatoes is what
gives the characteristic tomato fla
vor" and which is so deliciously pa
latable and refreshing. Furthermore,
it is because of this acidity that you
do not tire of the tomato as food.
1t is its own appetizer and the only
vegetable of which it is practically
impossible to overeat.
OF supreme value to health is this
constant freshness of the tomato, as
dependable in canned tomatoes as in
the fresh. There is nothing like it
for the invalid and the convalescent;
there is nothing better as a prime
"pick-me-up" and reviver for ath-
letes and there is no better food OBJ
tainable for everyday use for rich
and poor alike.