FOOD. VALUE. OF. CHOCOLATES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 10

FOOD. VALUE. OF. CHOCOLATES

I'n ordinary chocolate the relative proportions of ' nib, cocoa. butter, and .sugar, vary considerably, hut in the composition of a high-class eating choc olaio. there would'bo 31 per cent, of cocoa butter and 52 per cent. <<f sugar, which, converted into energy giving power calories per lb. would be I rails talc,) as cocoa bulter 1,327 calorics, and sugar 973, and allowing 162 calories for other digestible carbohydrates, and 76 for protein, gives a total number of calories 2,538." This figure without comparison, is not of sufficient importance so a table is given below showing tho relative values of foodstuffs on the basis of calorics per lb. Fuel Value of Foodstuffs

Foodstuffs as Qalorics Purchased Per lb. Cabbage 121 Cod Fish 209 Apples 2.14 I'olatoes •. 302 .Milk 314 i'V's 594 . Beef Sleak 960 Bread (average white) 1180 Oatmeal 1811 Sugar 1835 (Yxra 2258 Fating Chocolate 2538

The fuel value of milk chocolate is even greater than (hat of plain .chocolate, yielding 2.615 energy giving calories per lb., and it is generally recognised thai milk chocolate is the most nutritious of all .sweetmeats, which is easily understood when in one pound iff chocolate (high grade milk chocolate) there is three-quarters of a pound of chocolate, and two pounds of milk. -Milk chocolate retains all the cream proteins, sugar, phosphates and calcium of the original milk, as well as the important vitamins A, B, and I). During tho war, chocolate was very much valued as a compact food, and all polar expeditions carry chocolate as an essential part of the diet.