USE OF VEGETABLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24817, 17 January 1942, Page 9

USE OF VEGETABLES

SOURCES OF VITAMIN C From London comes some interesting advice from a well-known doctor about vegetable juice. Her opinion about the disappearance of apples—the last available “ fruity '*. source of vitamin C—from the market there is informative. It seems that there is no need to feel that synthetic vitamin C, which can now be bought at the chemists, is the only way to maintain the children’s health. “As long as children get potatoes baked in their skins, or even boiled in their skins, they have a good source of vitamin C,” she said. The doctor says that turnip and carrot juice is just as good for children as orange juice, and both give a plentiful supply of vitamin C. The best way to extract the juice from carrots and turnips without a press is to cover a bowl with fine muslin. Over the muslin grate the turnip and carrot finely. Then fold up the muslin and squeeze out the juice. The addition of glucose will add to the value of the juice. Like orange juice and all other fruit juices, vegetable juice should be used immediately. If this is impossible, it should be bottled and corked tightly.