TARTS MADE OF STRAW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 June 1915, Page 3

TARTS MADE OF STRAW.

Professor /FriedSnth,aL,. an eminent Berlin physician, has added to his fame by discovering valuable nutritive properties in straw and hay. That cattle find this feed sustaining is known, but it has been reserved for the great Berlin doctor to discover that human beings may derive considerable benefit from bread in which a large percentage of straw has been mixed. At a. largely attended meeting of Berlin medical men Professor Friedenthal produced specimens of his straw bread, some of it in the form of dainty-looking tarts. It was passed round to the medicos, who . gravely masticated the queer mixture, but refrained from precipitate judgment until they were certain of its effects. Friedenthal admits that his straw flour (the flour must be ground very fine) contains substances which, taken by themselves, are regarded as highly indigestible; but he reminds u« that all our food has a residuum of matter of this character, and that the human digestive organs —and, for that matter, the digestive organs of all animals—call out for such ■substances as aids and stimulants. No human being, declares Friedenthal, could live on rood tliai did liot contain indigestible matter. "We are not told the final opinion of the doctors, but it -.appears that a committee of.them has been appointed to discuss straw bread with the Prussian Health Office and the Ministry of the Interior.