104 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



P0UND5 OF PROTEIN AND FUEL VALUE OF ONE POUND OF GRAPE 

 NUTS COMPARED WITH lO POUNDS OF BEEF, ROLLED WHEAT, 

 WHEAT FLOUR^ ROLLED OATS AND BREAD. 



Protein Fnel value 

 —lbs. —calories. 



I pound of Grape Xuts 12 1,870 



10 pounds round steak, including bone i .90 8,950 



10 pounds beef ramp, including bone i .29 14,050 



10 pounds rolled wheat i . 01 17,650 



10 pounds bread flour 1.31 16,450 



10 pounds rolled oats i • 50 19,650 



10 pounds white bread 80 12,200 



A\'hile there is no question that Grape Nuts is a good cereal 

 food, it is difficult to understand why the manufacturers should 

 make claims so absurd and contrarv^ to fact. 



Gluten Preparations. 



It was the intention to confine this study to the breakfast 

 cereals, but as local physicians were prescribing certain 5:-:£.iiei 

 gluten foods for diebetic patients, the three in m^s: zzrr.rr.zn use 

 were analyzed. Gluten preparations, containing as high as 70 

 per cent of protein, were on the market five years ago, and there 

 are now preparations carrv-rng from 30 to 50 per cent of gluten 

 which can be used with reasonable safety by persons suffering 

 from diabetes. i.\s is seen from the table, the Health Food 

 Company's Cooked Gluten, Dr. Johnson's Glutine, and the Health 

 Food Company's Whole Wheat Gluten earn.' only a Uttle more 

 protein and a little less carbohydrates than ordinary flour. 

 Samples of flour made from the hard spring wheat of the North- 

 west not infrequently earn.- more protein that the sample of Dr. 

 Johnson's Glutine and nearly as much as the two other samples 

 here reported upon. Too much can hardly be said in condemna- 

 tion of the foisting, by false statements in advertising, such 

 materials upon diabetic patients, imposing upon physicians as 

 well as the public. As articles of food for healthy persons, or 

 for the undernourished, those so-called glutens are excellent, and 

 whole wheat gluten at 11 cents a pound is no more expensive 

 than some breakfast cereals. The tvvo others each cost at retail 



