io6 maine: agricultural, experiment station. 1900. 



meters (about 5 cups to a quart) gives the figures in the follow- 

 ing table : 



AMOUNT OF INFUSION YIELDED BY ONE POUND OF THE COFFEE SUB- 

 STITUTE WHEN PREPARED AS DIRECTED. 





Coffee Substitute. 



6179 

 6180 

 6181 

 6182 

 6183 

 6288 

 62S9 

 6290 



Postuni Cereal 



Caramel Cereal. 



Golden Grain 



Old Grist Mill Coffee ....... 



Wheat- Shred Drink 



Grain-0 



Dr. Johnson's Cereal Coffee 

 Mo-Ko , 



10.31 



10.9 



11.34 



12.0 



15.12 



16.0 



32.40 



34.1 



5.89 



6.2 



6.48 



6.9 



4.54 



4.8 



3.63 



3.8 



57 

 63 

 83 

 ISO- 

 33 

 36 

 25- 



The directions for preparation have no relation to their differ- 

 ent solubilities, so it does not follow that the least soluble mate- 

 rial makes the thinnest drink.. For example, Caramel Cereal is 

 less soluble than Old Grist Mill Coffee but when prepared in 

 accordance with directions, the infusion of the former contains 

 more than twice as much solids as that of the latter. 



Skimmed milk is generally considered a pretty thin beverage 

 but as seen from the following table.it contains from three to 

 twenty times as much solids as these so-called nutritious drinks. 

 Wheat-Shred Drink is perhaps a fair illustration of these goods. 

 The label claims it to be "nutritive in the highest degree" and 

 yet one would have to drink four and one-half gallons of the 

 infusion to get the amount of protein furnished by one quart of 

 skimmed milk. A teacup full (1-5 of a quart) of the decoction 

 ot Postum Cereal, which it is claimed "nourishes, strengthens- 

 and vitalizes" contains about 1-7 of an ounce of solids (dry 

 matter) and about 1-100 of an ounce of protein (nitrogenous 

 matter). While it would take nearly 1-4 of a cup of skimmed 

 milk to furnish this weight of solids, the protein of a cup of 

 Postum Cereal is contained in a dessert spoonful of skimmed 

 milk. 



