ON APPLE EATING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16780, 8 July 1922, Page 15

ON APPLE EATING.

Do you know, asks one horticultural journal, what you are eating when you cat an apple? You are eating gallic acid, one of the most necessary elements in human economy. You are eating sugar in the most assimilable form, combined carbon, hydrogen and oxygen caught and imprisoned from tlio sunshine. You are eating a gum applied to the “ fragrant medicinal gums of Araby.” And you are eating phosphorus in tlie only form in winch it is available as the source of all brain and nerve energy. In addition to all these, 3011 are drinking the purest of water and eating the most, healthful and desirable iibre for the required “roughness” in food elements.. The acids of apple diminish the acidity of the sto-

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contained phosphorus is not only greater than in any other form of food, but n is presented in ;i shape for imm< use by the brain and nerves, where it may flash into great tlnoughts and great deeds. The ancients assigned the apple as the food for the gods, and its juices the ambrosial nectar to which they resorted to renew their youth. Men are the gods of t-o-day. and the apple is their royal food, the magic renew er of youth. Kat a rich ripe apple every day and you have disarmed all diseases of half their terror.