TWELVE MISTAKES ABOUT FOOD

Evening Star, Issue 16908, 4 December 1918, Page 8

TWELVE MISTAKES ABOUT FOOD

Walter M. Gallichnn writes as follows in a London paper Most of us are wont to accept the often-stated os proven truth in dietetic matters. Tho common fallacies about food nro repeated from generation to generation. Scientific analysis disproves many suppositions. Hero are instances ; 1. It is often said that beef is more nourishing than bread and cheese, There is, however, far more nutriment in one shilling’s worth of bread and cheese than in bosf to the value of one shilling. Lean beef is very inferior to cheese as nutriment. 2. Skim-milk is supposed to be valueless as food. This Is an error. Skimmilk taken with bread constitutes a sustaining meal. 3. Most persons imagine that butter is considerably more nourishing than margarine. The fact is that the best fresh butter and the best kinds of margarine contain almost exactly the same amount of nutriment per pound, 4. It is believed that costly cheese is the most nourishing. The cheaper chooses are mostly richer in protein than tho expensive sorts. 5. That potatoes arco a cheaper food than bread is incoiTect. If potatoes arc oaten as substitutes for wheaton broad the quantity must bo very largo, and the cost will not be kas than that of bread. 6. Wo are often told that oatmeal is not so nutritive as wheatmcal. On the contrary, oats contain more fatty ingredient? than wheat, and are the most nutritious of grain foods.. 7. Most people think that rice is indigestible. Experiments prove that wellcooked rice is easily digested. 8. Maize is thought to bo inferior to wheat as human food. Maize undoubtedly contains more fat than wheat. 9. A Dover sole is esteemed as more valuable food than a dried herring. Generally speaking, cured flah is more nourishing than fresh. A kippered herring hj hotter food than a solo of first quality. 10. Nuts are regarded as dessert dishes and not as nourishing food. Brasil nuts, almonds, and walnuts have f>o per cent, of fat. and are very good feeds. Better made from nut- is nearly as nourishing as milk butter. 11. It is thoneht that f-uil, i = not a food. This d°rjendr- on the kind of fruit. Dates are a staple diet in parts of the East, and figs and raisins in a dry state H.rcr vory nutritive*. 12. Tea and eafma are sunpesr-d to be ■'‘sustaining." » : ther of these hcvc-eges contains nutnment. Milk e>d merer irivc r. small fo.- d milue to the ordinary cup of len nr coffee. .lode Ca.ir.emn war r, highly skilled workman in a new aircraft rectory. Thc-rfrrc, it happened one. day (hat- Jock was ■aalw/i if bo would cere to accompany the works aviator on one of h:s trial Sights in a machine. Jock, after some hesitation, agreed to do so. During the flight the aviator asked how hr. was enjoying :t. “To tell tho truth." answerer! the, boot,' “I wad rather be on the grouuV “Tut, tut!” rephed the. dying man: - I’m just thinking of looping the loop." ■'Don't .lie that 1” cried tiio now nervous Jock. “ Pvo some siller in my vest pocket, an’ I might lose it.’