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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1888, Page 6

Heat, fruit, and Vegetables, and Their Relation to Health. i '♦* • Ax eminent medical authority, who has devoted his lifetime to ascertaining the amount of nutriment derived from different classes of food, meats and vegetables, and the time required for their digestion, gives some carious but useful information in & table recently published. Thus whilst beef contains Only 33 pet cent, of nutriment, wbich requires two and a half hours to digest, that usually despised commodity, " bread " —dry and undisguised—yields just 80 per cent, of nutriment, and is digested in a little over three hours. Eggs yield 23 per cent., mattoh 30 per cent., whilst barley, tide, and maize all return from fcO to 95 per cent., and are digested in less time than meat, fruit, or vegetables. In this way science demonstrates the value Of cereal products, and proves to the feeble and dyspeptic that there is yb% hope. C. Gilbert's cornflour, prepared by a specially patented process from the inner or essential portion of the finest corn, yields a higher percentage of nourishment and is more easily digested and assimilated than any other. This cornflour is delicious and wholesome, and not being a lowpriced or anonymous article, it is thoroughly free from any deleterious or foreign substance. Gilbert's cornflour is What its name indicates—a cornflour manufactured from selected stock, grown in the finest) cerealproducing state in the world; and being prepared with special care and by a patent process, it caanot be sold aa low as many of the brands usually " stocked " by the trade, because they cost less than a genuine article can be produced for, Cheap and nasty are the lajster, not only to the palate, but in their effects upon the system, and only a very few people who happen to own Very hardy constitutions will defend the policy of •wallowing a preparation of unsuspected ingredients, labelled "cornflour, because it costs a halfpenny per pound less than an article about which there can be no doubt. Ask your grocer to get you Gilbeitfs Cdrriflottr, and contrast its quality, purity, and delicate flavour with any other brand. We write from experience, and invite comparison. Any grocer can obtain it front A. Heather, Auckland. Do not omit to try it. Gilbert's Cornflour has no equal for paddings, cakes, or custards. Important Do not forget to aak your tracers fof "Cttdbury'e Cocoa Essence," which la genuine, econO mical, and nutritious. ; ■ . n '•ROUGH ON FILES.* Why suffer PAes ? immediate relief and complete core guaranteed. Ask for " Hough pi» Piles.• Sure euro for itoMng, protruding, bleedtag, oranrfornadPUee, , ;