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On niiiicrnl salts, wc are also inclined to overlook the advantages 

 of nuts. 



Regarding vitamins, tlie iiu})ortance of" the Vitamin A and 15 

 content of" most of" the nuts has been long recognized, and in this 

 respect the pecan ranks high, as shown by recent experiments made 

 by Salmon and Livingstone, reported in the March, 1925 issue of the 

 Journal of Home Economics. 



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Summing up, therefore, we find that when the latest methods of 

 food analysis are applied to nuts in general and to pecans in par- 

 ticular there is found good reason why nuts have been man's staple 

 food from the beginning. No other food offers so well balanced, so 

 pure, so healthful a supi)ly of those elements required by the human 

 system. 



