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records were secured mentioned apple sauce as an article on the family 

 menu. Instead of the easily made apple sauce, these families had apple pie, 

 regardless of the labor involved or the greater tax on digestion. 



On the whole, the fruit scores of the children of both towns are good. (See 

 Table 9 and Chart 5.) No child was found who did not have fruit of some 

 kind at least four or five times a week, and most children had raw fruit ten 

 or more times each week,— apples in greatest quantity, oranges next. It 

 seems justifiable to conclude that, in general, these children of Carver and 

 Southwick are getting fair amounts of fruit. 



Table 9. Distribution of Fruit Scores 



♦Scored on the basis of 21 for raw fruit (or raw vegetable or canned tomato) twice a day 

 and cooked fruit once a day; smaller amounts in direct proportion. 



Bread and Cereal Scores 



For the purposes of this study, the scores for bread and cereal foods have 

 been computed solely on the amounts of whole grain breads and cereals 

 eaten. Without doubt, every child in the families surveyed had an ample 

 supply of refined cereals, particularly white bread. It is not believed that 

 any child failed to get a liberal number of calories. The diets are adequate 

 for fuel needs and it is on the other essentials for nutrition that emphasis 

 should be placed. Since, in evaluating the diets, stress has been laid upon 

 their content of protein, minerals and vitamines rather than on total calories, 

 the data have been computed upon the basis of the frequency with which 

 whole grain foods appeared in the children's menus. 



A score of 14 means that the diet contained either whole grain bread or 

 whole grain cereal at least twice daily. By reference to Table 10 and Chart 

 5, it will be seen that very few of the children in either town have excellent 

 scores for the cereal foods; that the Carver children of foreign parentage 

 score a little higher than those of native parentage; but that in Southwick 

 the children of foreign parentage have lower scores than those of native 

 parentage. These differences come because of the large proportion of Finns 

 in the Carver foreign group, as almost all the Finnish families use a great 

 deal of hard, whole grain bread. To some extent, the native families of 

 Carver have copied this habit of the Finns and for that reason all the scores 

 for whole grain cereal foods are slightly higher in Carver than in Southwick. 

 Nevertheless, in both towns the scores for whole grain cereal foods are so 

 low it seems evident that the children are not getting adequate amounts. 



