UNPLEASANT REVELATIONS RESPECTING "NUTRITIOUS" FOOD.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1862, 19 September 1874, Page 3

UNPLEASANT REVELATIONS RESPECTING "NUTRITIOUS" FOOD.

Ir was this gentleman (Xlr Biirtlett) who '' was examined on Mondiy, and who main- i tained the literal accuracy of : what ; he had Written. He remarked.tuat Indian:.corfi ; -. !; - has a great quantity of fijsh : .and bone n forming matter, and is therefore a food of high value; 'but these " flours,'' he insis- '; > ted,. contain '"at; most ■•" 33 grains of;-' nitrogenous' or nutritious matter out of a. , pound of 7000 grains,; in .which';there;'; should be 800 or 900 graids' of nutritious-;'; matter." It would thus seem that'.the. 1 .; manufacturer.largelyexpendshis.skill.in extracting the ua&ritipus properties; frora , iV .. the natural; product, ;in order to throw;. ;, them away. In some, cases,: s we are assured, the nitrogenous portipnvof...the;r.i corn is washed out with'a ; weak : ;lye caustic sodar'the starch- being Carefully-- • preserved,while' the nutritious parts go I ;''' to feed', the pigs'!' 1 -Small; 'coxisolatioii' is! :i ' ! to be'.derived 1 from the' I staieoi'orit ! ;£t^a6 these flours form'agelafciuoiismatter^ J because wo are told in thia- same; breath . r .that the experiment-of feeding.'a' dog" wholly on gelatine led to the unfortunate _ animal's death. Indeed, ;Mr Bartlettas- ' sorted tliat cases.of human starvation l ; . have been knqwft to occur from the sime' cause. The witness quoted from a . work of Dr Linkestejr, " whbhad' givenaj; testimonial ;to these. foods"-.;in; these; terms; " Most of the deaths from handfeeding under 'six months ol'd ariub from the useof corn flour, arrowroot,--baked 1 - flour, and other kinds of starchy food*, which contain no nutritive' qualities.' ? Standing alone, this evidence .is over-; whelmning, but' unfortuuat&'ly for ..the!;. , anxious i seeker after - truth, * the v next "'J 1 witness openly dissented from it. This... was Mr Franbis ; Mton,- ; i)\G.S.'V v the , publife analyst for the county of In orfolkV ' { flour ";fairly :i -* good food," ' and- generally 1 ■ 'regarded "' 1 adultordtion as 1 adiminiShiiig ir'not ,?tr,\ trivial f eyil,. There } is ;;thti-, jjr'oyertiikt % difficulty iii this case, .ofdocidiugr.^Kere ,>ye-Vtrdat, thaiti"; additional; evidence' will L be>procpiitedviiyi; f; 'the .Ooffltmittee until its specific, gravity one side or: thai other! shall .relieve;: thee!) pbpular- ; mind; of its • present: dire h givinga. At any tp ; ''" i: howevef ,bad ; tbiug3now '*■ real' improvement lias take'n'place of : latO years. -Manchester Examines June 10.