DIETS. 



Table 26. — Standard laboratory breakfast. 



263 



1 Computed. 



changes were made in this meal during the experimental period, 

 although there were some substitutions owing to the differences in 

 the regular bill of fare available on particular days, and some changes 

 in the total amounts of nitrogen and energy. The menu is given in 

 table 27. The footnotes to this table indicate the character of the 

 changes made on the different days. 



Table 27. — Standard restaurant dinner.^ 



1 Roast beef (large slice) was served instead of lamb on Nov. 10 and Nov. 24, a smaller potato 

 (about 75 gms.) and a serving of cranberry jelly instead of butter, but of about the 

 same size. On December 8 the roast beef was decreased to about 1 oz., the potato 

 was increased to about 125 gms., and butter was served instead of jelly. 



* Determined in composite sample. 



On Sunday nights in Springfield it was the custom of the college 

 for the men to separate more or less, and no regular evening meal was 

 served. Beginning October 7, the men were assigned small lunches, 

 which consisted at first of a cake of sweet chocolate, with some form 

 of bran. Later the chocolate was omitted and fruit substituted or 

 served alone. The Sunday night suppers, with their nitrogen and 

 energy content, chiefly computed, are given in detail in table 28. 

 Usually, particularly when fruit and bran muffins were given, they 

 were included for analysis in the sample of the noon meal. With the 

 bran preparations and chocolate, analyses of the individual materials 



