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A ^IP]^IBP]R: T want to ask you if it makes any differ- 

 once in relation to your meals whether you have eaten a 

 starchy meal and the various kinds of fruits, their effect on 

 ticJd and digestion at the same time? 



]M]SS HATCH: I said in my lecture that there are two 

 kinds of fruits dependent on the composition, one kind Ave 

 call food fruits and the other flavor fruits, l)ut even if you 

 eat the more concentrated fruits, such as the apple or ba- 

 I'ana, there is not enough carbohydrate there to interefere 

 with the starchy meal. Of course if you eat nothing' but 

 ]>otatoes and beans, then I should eat a watery fruit, but if 

 you ate the average mixed meal with a certain amount of 

 meat and vegetables, then any kind of fruit. 



A ME:\1BER: Did I understand the Professor to say 

 that she alwa.ys pared apples? 



MISS HATC;H: Oh no, I said if you did. to use a silver 

 knife. But in the skin there is a certain amount of min- 

 eral matter, flavor, and acid, which is very good for us. 



A ME]\[BER : I would like to ask if the acids of fruits 

 hrtVv^ any effect on aluminum? 



MISS HATCH: If there is any action, it is so slight 

 that we can neglect it. I always rse aluminum at home. 



A ME^IBf^K : Is not the skin of the apple rather indi- 

 gestible? 



]\IISS HATCH: It ]night be for people who did not have 

 a very strong digestion, but if you masticate it thoroughly, 

 it will be all right. The peeling is less digestible, but if a 

 person has an ordinarily strong digestive apparatus, the, 

 ]>eeli?ig won't do any harm, but it should be thoroughly 

 masticated. 



A ?dEMBER: Is not frnit more beneficial if eaten ex- 

 clusively at meals and not eaten at all times of the day? 



:\[ISS HATCH: AVell, it is better to form the habit of 

 eating regularly, either three times a day or four times a 

 (lay. and it is not a good plan to break over that rule for 

 Iruits or anything else, but if you need a forenoon or after- 



