APPLE POWDER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 4

APPLE POWDER

CURATIVE PROPERTIES j NEW INDUSTRY STARTED DOMINION POSSIBILITIES -Most people know that there is much: virtue in the humble apple. The old! I adage of “an apple a day” is world famous' but few people realise the extent of the ! discoveries of modern medical science , | respecting the use of apples as a certain j . cure in many internal disorders—notadly ; dysentery. If discoveries made during {recent years had been public property! at, the beginning of the century, innuiner-! | able lives might have been saved in the 1 i South African campaign alone, j It is interesting to note that German: j soldiers suffering from dysentery during! | the Great War, were surprised at the re-! i liei which followed the eating of raw i apples. A German doctor—Heisler—witnessed the cure of an obstinate case of dysentery through eating raw apples; he then adopted the apple in the treatment of all cases of this sort with great sue- j cess. Dr. Moro, of Heidelberg, definitely es-' Lablished the raw apple diet as a means of treatment, and used it with marked! success in all acute and chronic bowel in- j lections of infancy. Many other German; doctors developed his ideas on this sub ject Finely grated apple was the rccog- ; nised form in use; children were given as many as twenty grated apples a day; ! further, the lives of children as young as i six months old were saved by this diet. RESULTS IN AUSTRALIA ; In Australia extensive observation has I ben carried out in Brisbane by Dr j P. A. Karnsliaw, M. 8., Ch.M, (Sydney),! i and he endorsed all the favourable re--1 ports from ovetseas. There were, of course, certain difficu'ties in the use of the raw j ! apple diet; the objection of parents ; and the difficulty in persuading patients to consume enough. Further, some j apple curiously enough (the GravensteinJ is a notable example), do not; possess' the curative properties, and most import-: ant of all, apples are not procurable' everywhere, especially in the tropicsj where they are most needed. An apple powder was then put on Ihe market in Germany. The powder is , made from the unpeeled fruit dried in vacuo. This powder has all the advantages of the fresh fruit, even the flavour. D lasts a long time and readily mixes' with warm water. It is more easily men. ; sured than raw fruit, and represents six ' times the same quantity by weight of 1 fresh apple. i I« A CERTAIN CURE j Apple powder is a yellow powder with j a pleasant odour, and dissolves in five to ten minutes in warm water or tepid tea, saccharine must be used to sweeten, instead of sugar. About a teaspoonful j is a dose, it never fails to cure 1110;' diseases mentioned, and the youngest!' child Can take this treatment. ! 1 It will be interesting news to New Zealand to learn that thos apple powder is;' now being produced in Tasmania by a can- [' ning firm at Hobart. It keeps for long 11 periods and can be easily sent to remote j 1 parts of the world. There is a great future for this young industry, and it is of i course practicable to utilise grade apples • which are not readily marketable as table 1 fruit. j It is to the credit of the New Zealand , Government that they have quietly in- , stituted a careful inquiry into the reports ( on the subject, which certainly offer an . opening for a similar industry in the. Dominion. It seems that here lies a potential opening for the absorption of surplus apples in New Zealand, (states the “New Zealand Herald’’).