MEAT, FRUIT & VEGETABLES, AND THEIR RELATION TO HEALTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 8385, 21 January 1888, Page 6

MEAT, FRUIT & VEGETABLES, AND THEIR RELATION TO HEALTH.

An 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 curious but useful information in a table recently published. Thus whilst beef contains only 33 per cent of nutriment, which 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, mutton 30 per cent, whilst barley, rice, and maize all return from 80 to 05 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 yet 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 corn flour, manufactured from selected stock, grown in the finest cereal-producing state in the wcrld; and being prepared with special care and by a patent process, it cannot bo sold as low as many of the brands usually “stocked” by the trade, because they cost less than a genuine article can be duced for. Cheap and nasty are the latter, 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 swallowing a preparation of unsuspected ingredients, labelled “cornflour,” because it costs a half-penny per pound less than an article about which there con be no doubt. Ask your grocers to get you Gilbert’s Cornflour, and contrast its quality, purity, and delicate flavour with any other brand. We write from experience, and invite the comparison. Any grocer can obtain it from King Bros., or any other wholesale merchant. Do not omit to try it. Gilbert’s Cornflour has no equal for puddings, cakes, or custards. Wholesale Agents fob Canterbury— KING BEOS., Lichfield street, Christchurch.