THE FOOD VALUE OF RICE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 12, 8 February 1907, Page 6

THE FOOD VALUE OF RICE.

Hot Bo aich la Tlswßulldlng El©■Mats M Othar Grains—What fkt Doctors Say. Certain wise doctors have lately been assuring the world that the Japanese are sure to be beaten by the Russians because they live on rice, which is a food not at all calculated to supply the wastage upon the human body caused by the hardships of a military campaign, Bays the New York Mail. This may be true, though the world will wait and see. Curiously emHiflh, at a time when the physiologists are giving this warning, the rice growers of the United States have combined to teach to the American people the assumed food value of rice and to induce the people, if they can, to consume a great deal more of that grain than they do. As a matter of ascertained fact, rice is below all other grains produced in commercial qualities in America in its food value—below wheat, maize, rye, oats, barley and buckwheat. It is vastly poorer than any of these in ash, in protein, in fiber and in fat, and sur passes them only in starch. It is not to be thought of for any western people as a main article of food. However, it is not at a main article oi food that it if Used in this country. Our diet is, fortunately, much more varied than that of the Japanese. Rice is employed in increasing quantity, and to advantage, as a palatable subsidiary article of the national diet. It is a peculiarity of the human stomach that in addition to the nutritive quality in food it demands mere bulk. Concentrated foods soon ruin the digestion. The stomach eagerly calls for something to throw away. Bice supplies this demand. As igfood which one may take a large* quantity of without getting much to eat it is, no doubt, filling a longftlt want in this country, j» Sacrifices in Xom. (' Education costs $ 165,000 and religious sacrifice! SIBO,OOO a year In Korea. farm Land Value* in lag U»& Farm land in England ranges fft price from S6O to $l2O per acm