When to Eat Fruit.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1896, Page 3

When to Eat Fruit.

■M^i«M | O >> '" ™ Aa everyone knows, most fruit contains acids, and these acids may be made to assist digestion, but much depends on the time and quantity taken. Fruit should always be eaten in moderate quantity and after a meal because if it is taken before a meal it may so affect the natural juices of the stomach that they cannot perform their function in digestion. An analysis of moat domestic fruits, such as apples, peaches, pears, grapes, plums, strawberries and raspberries, shows that they contain similar ingredients, and in much the same proportions. Thus we find about 1 per cent of malic, citric, hydrochloric, or other acids, 1 per cent of albuminoids or flebb producing substances, with about 80 or 85 per cent of water. Any of these domestic fruits, therefore, when taken after a meal containing a considerable amount of fats or oily matter will be beneficial because they supply any deficiency of acids that may be found in the stomach. Especially is this true in a weak stomach.— Rural World.