Ingredients
- one show a fuel value in excess of the fattest meat
Directions
The following tables were compiled from analyses made by government experts in the Agri- cultural Department at Washington.
We give a table on flesh foods, not because we endorse or recommend them, but because it affords an opportunity of comparison, which Is the best means of acquiring knowledge :
The superiority of nuts In every life-giving property will be noticed at a glance — for Instance, the fuel value of pork-sides, the meat which con- tains the greatest amount of fat, and but little else, is only about 2,500 heat calories per pound, while all the shelled nuts given In the table except one show a fuel value in excess of the fattest meat, while most of them run above 3,000, or from thirty to fifty per cent, greater than meat as a fuel or heat producing article.
The thing, however, that makes nuts such an excellent article of food Is that their nutritive