Fruit as an Article of Diet.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1659, 16 March 1886, Page 2

Fruit as an Article of Diet.

One of the most salutary tendancits of dpmestic management m our dayus-ftftat [which aimi it- assigning ' tO fruit 4! favoured place in' pur daily diet. r TM ■ nutrient value Of such fobdih ; virtne ef its cptojponent starches and saccharJnV ! materials, is generally admitted ;^aiid* while the substances oannot be *aid v; tt? | equal m accumulatgjj force the mope > solid ingred ients of meat and animal fat, they a|B#iffiiitef|y|useful m themowndf ,greeMna^aave,Mbreoyefi thj 4djvdntig4 fortgreaterdigestibility. Their convefuon i within the tissues -is .afao. attended with iess friction and^prafesnre on the con* -struetive machinery. The locally stimulant action of many subacid fruits on tht mucous membrane deserves mention. Its) ' control of fißtoo : active peptic r secretion t ! arid, its } infl tientfe of attraction exercised uppn.thejUlkialme abdaperient inteitina •juice, are pinn'ts 'of liribre^than l suj|B.r^o|3 I importance. To this action, furthef egdr^l •which aid the iqah^tenanoe of a pure, iyigordus oiroulation, jare, directly due. •Djjsn^tio pn. the , other.handj (are usually benefitted by a mod%Faite && jlowanceof this lia;ht anil stimulating ' fare. ; ' ; It must be remembered^manMp^ I that every fruit is np,t ?^^% ; let the "digastion" be as; powerful"^**^ ! may. '.Nuta, for ai jthey do for the jnost paTpdfccondensed • albumina^ahd > fatty tiyittecs c«nn.p^ : compare^^^aicceptance^ esh;f>> hy the palate or th^^agh, succqi lent Hindß,'^e^i thpugb#they'|eontam. in. i tl^a sauie; b.allc a far ggreate?: amount of ni^trinqettt. httle of 'such food ir encm^fer-d^tion,, and, that JHtle ii best x copWdC ' Nevertheless 1 if .we r : %kp fruit as i^ghoje rip^and sound of course, and consider the variety? its lightness amfj npiJnshing prppffi{ie«j,>- iwhether eaten alone or with other tobd y and Its ohefp-abundarice, we cannot iheutate^^ add our.yoicein. support of its jußtci»im» on. public- attention. In former ar^cjje'| we %ye^lio\vn\iwhy vege^^bie WflftbM of all kmds shouldl eqtoy" l|rgely mfo^the food, of all oHiMreri.' l Well bhosen fruits a.se oqnsequently^"for 'them as safe and benisficial 1 as agreeable.— -Lancet. .- 1 h !f A