BEEF TEA AND CHICKEN BROTH.
(By a Doctor.) The tragic faith in beef tea and chicken broth as body builders still loads to tho feeding of sick and convalescent people on these useless articles. In the boiling to which they are subjected in their preparation tho protein that is so badly needed is coagulated and falls to the bottom as small granules. The-rest of the broth is. in the words of a well-known physiologist, about as valuable as the water in which an egg has been boiled no far as nourishment is concerned. As these decoctions are also without any scat ot vitamin, it is obvious that they should havo no place in the dietary of any living thing, but faith in these old household remedies dies hard. It is true that if these broths aro scientifically prepared so that a certain temperature is not exceeded, the coagulation of tho protein is avoided, but no one excepting a skilled laboiatory worker could by relied upon to see that this precaution i-* consistently carried out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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174BEEF TEA AND CHICKEN BROTH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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