CEREAL BFEAKFAST FOODS. IO3 



Malt Breakfast Food is prepared "from the best barley malt 

 and the choicest wheat." It contains as much protein as the best 

 of the wheat foods. The analysis here reported agrees as closely 

 as would be expected with that on the package. 



Grape Nuts, manufactured by the Postum Cereal Company, 

 is "made by special treatment of entire wheat and barley." 

 These goods have nearly the same proximate composition as the 

 wheat foods. Part of the starch has been changed into dextrin 

 and grape sugar. The claims of the makers are preposterous. 

 Grape Nuts "are a condensed food." "Four heaping teaspoons 

 of Grape Nuts are sufficient for the average meal." "The sys- 

 tem will absorb a greater amount of nourishment from i pound 

 of Grape Nuts than from ten pounds of meat, wheat, oats, or 

 bread." A man at moderate work needs per day about .28 

 pounds of protein and sufficient fats and carbohydrates in addi- 

 tion to make the potential energy of the day's food 3,500 calories. 

 Four heaping teaspoonfuls of Grape Nuts weigh about i ounce. 

 The protein and energy needed for one meal (^ of i day). and 

 that furnished by 4 heaping teaspoonfuls of Grape Nuts are 

 compared in the following table : 



Protein Fuel value 

 — lbs. — calories. 



Needed for ^ day by man at moderate work. . .090 1,1 75 

 Furnished by four heaping teaspoonfuls, (i oz.) 

 of Grape Nuts 007 117 



It would require .'j'j pounds of Grape Nuts (^ of a package) 

 to furnish y^, of the protein needed for one day for a man at 

 moderate work; the energy needed would be afforded by .63 

 pounds. 



The nutrients of beef are more completely digested and 

 absorbed than those of vegetable foods. There is no reason for 

 thinking that Grape Nuts would be more completely digested 

 than rolled oats, wheat flour or wheat bread. About 85 per 

 cent of the protein and of fuel value of vegetable foods are 

 digested and rendered available to the body. In the following 

 table there are compared the pounds of protein and fuel values 

 of one pound of Grape Nuts with "ten pounds of meat, wheat, 

 oats or bread." 



