TWELVE MISTAKES ABOUT FOOD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1389, 22 November 1918, Page 5

TWELVE MISTAKES ABOUT FOOD.

Walter M. Gallichan writes as follows in a London paper:— Most of us are wont to accept the often-stated as proven truth in dietetic matters. The common fallacies about food are repeated from generation to generation. Scientific analysis disproves many suppositions. Here arc instan-

ces : 1. It is often said that beef is more nourishing than bread and choose. There is, however, fur more nutriment in one shilling’s worth of bread and cheese than in beef of the value of one shilling. Lean beef is very inferior to cheese us nutriment. ‘2. Skim-milk is supposed to be valueless as food. This is an error. Skim-milk taken with bread constitutes a sustaining meal. if. Most persons imagine that butler is considerably more nourishing than margarine. The fact is that the besl fresh butter and the best kinds of margarine contain exactly the same amount of nutriment per pomid. 4. It is believed that costly diecsi is the most nourishing. The cbeapoi cheeses are mostly richer in proton

than tho expensive sorts. 5. That potatoes are a cheaper food than bread is incorrect. II potatoes arc eaten as substitutes for whoa ten bread the quantity must ho very large, and the cost will not bo loss than that of bread. (j. Wo are often told that oatmeal U not so nutritive as whuatmeal. On the contrary, oats contain more fatty ingredients* than wheat and the most nutritious of grain foods. 7. Most people think that nco is indigestible. Experiments provo that well-cooked rice is easily digested. 8. Maize is thoiq .t to be inferior to wheat as human fowl. Maize undoubtedly contains more fat than wheat. () j\ Dover sole is esteemed us more valuable food than a dried herring. (Jonorally speaking, cured fish w more nourishing than fresh. A kippered herring is bettor food than a solo ol first quality. , , 10 Nuts are regarded as de&sert dishes and not as nourishing food. Brazil nuts, almonds, and walnuts have 50 nor cent of fat. and are very good foods. Butter made from nuts is nearly as nourishing as milk huttoi. 11 It is thought that fruit is nob « food. This depends on the kind ot fruit. Dates are a. staple diet in paits ef the East, and figs uy<} '"‘isms in a drv slate are very uutrituc. 12 Tea and are supposed to he “sn, tabling.” Neither of these beverages contains nutriment, ililu juul sMmv crivo ji small toocl vahio to the ordinary cup of tea or coll 00,