"AN APPLE A DAY."

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 36, 13 February 1930, Page 12

"AN APPLE A DAY."

The apple is one of the best of fruits. Baked or stewed apples agree- with most delicate digestions and are an excellent medicine in many cases of sickness. Green or half-ripe apples, stewed and sweetened, are cooling and laxar tive. A raw apple, eaten before breakfast after a glass of warm, water, has l>een drunk, will slave much. u mbney spent at chemists' shops.

Oranges and lemons are skin cleansers and blood-purifiers. Lemonade is the best drink during fevers, if mad's from fresh fruit; and it is an excellent "slimmer" if drunk abundantly. Tomatoes act on the liver and bowels They should be pTesent in every salad, and a srlad ought to be on the table once or twice every week. The small-seeded fruits such, as black iberrigs, currants and figs, may be classed among the best medicines* The' swgar in them is nutritious, the acid is ■ cooling, and purifying, and the seeds, are laxative. There is no purge than the fig. The date", apart from being laxative, as considerable food value/ .'■'-' There is' no better ' * digestive' 7 f h'an the pineapple. A slice taken after a heavy meal will prevent the "possibility of indigestion following.