HOME AND EDUCATION
Foleette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted By BELLE CASE LA FOLEETTE MILK; A CHEAP FOOD D ROFESSOR Flora Rose has prepared a bulletin * on the food value of milk, which was issued by Cornell University,...
...234.0 In eggs at 55 cents a dozen...
...The director of the extension division says: "Its publication was so timely in this period of soaring food prices, and the unusual need for food conservation, that permission was asked and granted for republication in Minnesota...
...Milk-sugar is believed to be of importance in holding in check putrefactive changes in the contents of the large intestine...
...The greater the number of calories a digestible food will furnish for a given amount of money, the cheaper is the food as a source of energy...
...840.1 In round steak at 20 cents a pound...
...The following are a few extracts: Milk is a cheap food...
...A CHEAP FOOD D ROFESSOR Flora Rose has prepared a bulletin * on the food value of milk, which was issued by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York...
...It comes to my desk in the form of a reprint by the University of Minnesota...
...If ten cents is to be spent and the particular need to be considered is that of energy, the problem is how to invest that ten cents in order to buy tho most energy...
...271.0 In eggs at 35 cents a dozen...
...Furthermore, in any family dietary where the welfare or children as well as of adults is intelligently considered, it is almost a uecessity...
...672.5 In milk at 8 cents a quart...
...Even these figures showing energy values, striking as they seem, must not influence one too much in estimating the cost of milk as an enermy food, since two of the main sources of energy in milk, milk-fat and milk-sugar, be;Tdes their ability to yield energy, seem to have further significance in the dietary...
...That is, however, no argument for excluding milk and eggs or for using cereal only...
...that a combination of cereal and milk makes a cheaper energy-yielding meal than milk alone...
...The energy that a food may yield is measured in terms of the calorie...
...It is, however, an altogether unsafe practice, because the food thus eliminated may be, in spite of its seemingly high cost, the cheapest possible source of some nutritive substance necessary to the health and welfaro of the body...
...This unconsielc ed method of banishing a food from the family board or of limiting the amount to be used may often prove harmless and conservative...
...The increasing cost of many common foods leads to a temptation to reduce expenses by excluding thote foods the prices of which seem prohibitive...
...Ten cents will buy the following amounts of energy in a few typical foods: In milk at 10 cents a quart...
...This is particularly important in the case of the infant or the young child who may be very susceptible to the injurious action of abnormal substances produced In the food canal...
...The proof that milk is a cleap food is not in the price paid for the quart...
...There is an urgent need at this time for consumers, and particularly the housekeepers who plan the meals, to learn something of the nutritive value of foods...
...153.0 In bread at 6 cents a loaf..................1,713.5 In oatmeal at 5 cents a pound..............3,001.5 In cornmeal at 4 cents a pound.............4,037.0 These figures quickly convince one that milk is not the cheapest source of energy that can be included in the dietary, although it compares more than favorably with meat and eggs...
...that cereal alone is cheaper still...
...Even at fifteen or twenty ceuts a quart milk is a cheap source of certain nutritive substances always needed by the body, and patricularly needed during the growth period...
Vol. 9 • September 1917 • No. 10
