VARIETY OF USES

Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 7

VARIETY OF USES

APPLE'S NUTRITIVE VALUE From the dim ages of the past, the apple has been celebrated in myth and story. The Norsemen believed it to he the rejuvenating food of their gods. The goddess. Iduna, kept a box of apples of which the gods, when they felt old age approaching, had only to taste to become young again.

>ts high percentage of sugar. Its phosphorous content, greater than that of any other fruit or vegetable.' makesjt valuable to brain workers. It contains much iron which is so effective-in’the treatment of anaemia. Physicians formerly did not recommend the use of fruit in • stomach ailments. In fact, it was forbidden. New research, however, has revealed that m cases of acute or chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh, finely grated raw apple has a beneficial effect. It swells in the intestine and the. spongy mass absorbs the harmful elements

there which cause the irritation Moreover, the properties of the tannic acid in the fruit reduce the in flam ma- ' tion. ' The apple stimulates the function* of the lungs, kidneys, and liver. -Ta eat an apple before retiring at night induces sound, restful sleep.—F. Vergin in ‘ Gesundheitswacht, ■ quoted in ‘Health Digest,’ New York, i , ■ ‘ -i