IV 
A PERFECT FOOD 
ARON VON LIEBIG, one of the best-known writers on 
dietetics, says : — 
‘‘ Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a 
beneficent restorer of exhausted power; but its quality must be good, 
and it must be carefully prepared. It is highly nourishing and easily 
digested, and is fitted to repair wasted strength, preserve health, and 
prolong life. It 
agrees with dry tem- 
peraments and con- 
valescents; with 
mothers who nurse 
their children ; with 
those whose occupa- 
tions oblige them to 
undergo severemen- 
tal strains; with 
public speakers, and 
with all those who 
give to work a portion of the time needed for sleep. It soothes both 
STORAGE OF COCOA BEANS 
stomach and brain, and for this reason, as well as for others, it is the 
best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.” 
From ‘‘ La Grande Encyclopedie,’’ Vol. II., page 197 (translation 
from the French): ‘‘ Chocolate, on account of the starch which it 
contains, the sugar which is added, and by the fatty matters in its 
butter, and by the nitrogen of its theobromine, which is almost an 
albuminoid, represents a nearly perfect aliment, and is one of the foods 
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