Evening star., 1925-11-18
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY wINIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

| With such an authority as DIR. w.
| II. Eddy Of Teachers College. Co
lumbia University, standing ready to
show that properly canned foods are
not robbed Of their vitamtns, the lay
man need no longer trouble his head
! about the popular notion to the con-
| trary.
/ Take cabbage, for examnle, that
| super.vegetable, the dietary value Of
| which can scarcely be overestimated.
Cabbage is rich in the c vitamin, the
one which is necessary If we are to
! avoid malnutrition, loss Of nervous vi
, tality and scurvy. Home-cooked cab
! bage Is known to be decidedly def.
| cient in this important element,
| whether the cooking was carried out
| in an open kettle or in a pressure
| cooker
In 1922. experts in Geneva, n. Y,
| put up an experimental pack. Care
full supervision Of all experimental
work showed that cabbage. canned
| commercially. has a vitamin content
! five times greater than that put up in
! the home.
| Here is something the average
| housewife may do for the scientific
! development of food manufactur
/ Let her help to create a demand for
| canned cabbage. and the canneries
! will set about furnishing the product
| forthwith.
: Again. consider our old friend. the
! canned tomato. During the World
! War, canned tomatoes were valued
! addition to the diet Of soldiers, as
! they were known to possess a gener-
! Gus quantity Of the escurvy-preventing
! Vitamin. In fact, these products are
! especially rich in Vita Minis, contain
/ inG, as they do, some OF each Of the
chief vitamins. In a number of hos
! pitals the juice Of canned tomatoes is
used as an alternate with orange
! juice. 1t Is given TO babies as one
| of the foods which contribute to the
| protection Of the children from def
! cheney diseases and the resulting mai
nutrition. Canned tomato joice is also
! offered to inValids requiring a vitamin
rich diet.
The fact that the can is hermeti
, cally sealed before the contents are
| cooked makes oxidation impossible,
! and this is one factor that contributes
| to the preservation OF vitamins.
| Such q wide variety of foods is put
I up in this handy form nowadays that
/ II complete and perfectly balanced
meal may be supplied from q well
( stocked shelf of canned goods. The
! Nitanin-suppying foods. vegetables
! fruits and milk. now come in cans.
/ So do meats Of various kinds and in
I'M SiIl NplIbitd NlOIlS, as wen as
/ chicken. fish. cheese and other things
! which are rich in proteins. The sweets
! which supply carbohydrates are con
! tanned in such canned fruits as pine.
apple and figs. as we'll a s in the Starchy
7 cOcoanut. and in the delicious choco-
| late matted milk, which now comes
! in powdered form and needs only to
/ be mixed with mill: and we'll shaken
| in cocktail shaker. The cooking oils
! now put up in cans and the canned
! meat. fish and chicken products sup
! ply the necessary fat.
/ II may truly be said that not only
! is variety the spice Of life. but the
| source Of good health as well. BY
whatever means the housewife elects
| to furnish her family with this essen
! tial VARIETY. the duty OF supplying il
| is clear. If she is wise. she will equip
! her culinary department with such
| time nd-laborsavtnG aids as will
| make the serving of a well bala need
! meal = pleasure, not a burden
Copyright. 1925