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Starchy Baby Foods. 

 Tablk I. 



Allenshury's Malted Food No. 3.... — 6(i.3 jjit ct'iit wliciit sturcli ; 



Benser's Food for Infants — 59. .1" per cont wheat starch; 



Chapman's Food — ^renter per cent of curljoliydrates are wheat starch; 



Carniok's Food — 16.20 per cent wlieat starcli ; 



Eskay's Food — '^8.41 per cent raw arrowroot starch; 



Frame's Food — greater per cent of carbohydrates due to wheat 



starch ; 



Fessenden's Food — I?,"). 69 i)er cent arrowroot starcli ; 



Neave's Infant Food — greater part of carbohydrates due to wlieat starch ; 



Nestle's Food — 35.34 per cent wheat starch; 



Ridee's Food — 70.73 per cent wheat starch ; 



Sunbricht's California Baby Food.. — 63. "25 per cent barley starch; 



Imperial Granum — 76.60 per cent wheat starch; and 



Lactated Food — 41.94 per cent wheat starch. 



Those foods for infants that contain no starch, but are either deficient 

 in fat or in available mineral matter, or both, are: 



Contain no Starcli bnt Deficient in Fat or in Available Mineral Matter 



or Both. 

 Table II. 



Horlick's Malted Milk; Jlobb's Soluble Milk Food, 



Meadow's Malted Milk; (Elgin & Co.'s) 



Wample's Milk Food: and condensed and evaporated milks. 



B. Hutchinson says that it is often contended for these proprietary 

 products that they are more easily digested than natural foods and that 

 many of them exist because they are predigested. He says that the 

 necessity for peptonizing foods is greatly exaggerated, and that in patho- 

 logical chemistry pepsin is almost never absent from the gastric juice 

 unless hydrochloric acid is also absent. If hydrochloric acid can be found 

 in the stomach, pepsin is sure to be there too; there is, therefore, little 

 necessity for predigested foods. 



With all these objections as pointed out, there is still an economic ob- 

 jection to proprietary foods for infants. Most of them contain a ridicu- 

 lously small amount of nournishment at the retail price paid. Hutchinson 

 says that it is vastly more expensive to rear a child upon one of them 

 than upon fresh or even condensed milk. Mention might be made of the 

 retail price calculated per pound net of some of these proprietary foods 

 for infants. These are tabulated, and calculated in the following table: 



Calculated 



T.Mti.K III, price paid 



Trade name of infant food. per Ih. net. 



Cow's milk at 4 cents per liquid pound (calculated on drv basis) $0.31 



Allenburys Malted Milk No. 3 32 



Ridges Food 47 



Sunhrighfs Baby Food .53 



Nestle's Food .61 



Imperial Granum .74 



Carnick's Food .77 



Lactated Food 79 



Klein's Meadow Malted Food 84 



Fessenden's Food .85 



Horlick's Malted Milk 87 



Borden's Malted Milk 87 



Wampole's Food .90 



Renger's Food 93 



Kskavs Food 95 



Mellin's Food 1 . 49 



The facts in Table 3 are given as if these proprietary baby foods have 

 the same food value in calories per pound as cow's milk. Table 4 which 



