550 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



ANALYSIS OF SALTED SALMON 



Falkenburg & Co., of Seattle, have recently made an analysis of the 

 food value of salted salmon, as follows: ^^ 



Regarding the salmon recently inspected and analyzed for you by ourselves with 

 the following results: 



Protein 21. 97 per cent 



Fat 4. 34 per cent 



Salt 19. 08 per cent 



Ash . 84 per cent 



Moisture 54. 35 per cent 



Calories per pound 592 



If this salmon were freshened, as is the custom in preparing it for the table, 

 removing all but about 2 per cent of the salt, the fish would then have the following 

 analysis : 



Protein 27. 13 per cent 



Fat 5. 36 per cent 



Salt 2. 47 per cent 



Moisture 65. 11 per cent 



Ash 1. 03 per cent 



Calories per pound 734 



Bulletin No. 28 of the United States Department of Agriculture, "Chemical 

 Composition of American Food Products" gives on page 51 the food value of the 

 average canned salmon as purchased as follows: 



Refuse 14. 2 per cent 



Protein 19. 5 per cent 



Fat 7. 5 per cent 



Ash 2. per cent 



Moisture 56. 8 per cent 



Calories per pound 680 



SALMON IN RELATION TO THE PREVENTION OF GOITER 



Goiter is a deficiency disease of man and animal manifested as an 

 enlargement of the thyroid gland — the large gland in front of the neck. 

 There are two types of goiter, one form being easily recognized as a 

 strilung enlargement of the thyroid, often accompanied by "pop- 

 eyes." This type of the disease is known as exophthalmic goiter. 

 The second and most important type in regard to incidence is marked 

 only by a slight swelling at the base of the neck. 



It is a disease world-wide in distribution, but is most prevalent in 

 the Temperate Zone. The goiter zone of North America stretches 

 from coast to coast and includes southern Canada and the northern 

 States of the United States, particularly the mountain and Great 

 Lake regions. 



Goiter has its greatest incidence among children. The rate of 

 incidence increases as the age of puberty is approached, then falls 

 off rather rapidly. Fifty per cent of the school children are affected 

 in some localities. Women are particidarly susceptible to goiter. In 

 certain regions the goiter rate among women is sLx times greater than 

 that of men. Statistics on the presence of goiter among its students 

 have been collected at the University of Washington since 1908. 

 During that time an average of 35 per cent of the women students 

 have showed the presence of goiter. The percentage has been steadily 

 reducing for some time past owing to the adoption of prophylactic and 

 remedial measures. If it were not for this the average percentage 

 would probably be higher. 



>• Pucine P'i.sheniian, Seattle, Wash., Vol. XVII, No. 4, April, 1910, p. 70. 



