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CIJBRANS’ LIST OF FRUITS, 1908-9. 
Third. The oleaginous matters. 
Fourth. The albuminous matters. 
Filth. The saline matters. 
Milk and the yolk of eggs, both of which provide complete nutrition 
for embryonic and early life, are composed of the above substances. Are 
these substances found in fruits in a proportion suitable for human food, 
and in a form suitable for human digestion ? 
It is not enough to say that strawberries contain sugar, and bananas 
starch, and melons water, and Brazil nuts oil, and peanuts albumen ; but 
the percentage of their composition must be carefully noted. 
Take gooseberries, for example, we find they contain only 0-37 per cent, 
of albuminous matter, therefore some would argue that if a man were a 
fruitarian he would have to eat 3 lb. of gooseberries per day to get the 
albumen of one egg, or about 42 lb. of gooseberries per day to get the 
necessary amount of nitrogen for his daily sustenance. It would be just 
as wise as to argue that if a man eats meat he would have to eat 20 lb. of 
beef per day to get the necessary amount of carbo-hydrates. 
I have drawn out a list of analyses of some of our commonest fruits : — 
Gooseberry Peach Chestnut Almond 
Grape Apple Walnut Pistachios 
Cherry Pear Filbert Peanut 
Cocoauut 
Gooseberry 
0 
a 
O 
Cherry 
Peach 
Apple 
Pear 
Chestnut 
Walnut 
Filbert 
Almond 
0 
43 
0 
rt 
£ 
Peanut 
Cocoanut 
Water .... 
85-36 
7 Q .98 
7970 
82 ' 0 I 
85 '04 
83'95 
14*0 
44' 5 
48'o 
6‘0 
7'4 
46*6 
7 51 
u -78 
1070 
1*53 
7 58 
7*00 
17*5 
Free acid . . . 
l 33 
I ’02 
056 
077 
104 
0'07 
8’5 
I2'5 
8'c 
'* 
25 0 
220 
24 5 
5*5 
o'37 
o'83 
I'OI 
O' 39 
0*22 
o ' 26 
Soluble pectine . 
21 1 
o ' 50 
0 67 
9'28 
272 
328 
o ' 24 
0"4G 
060 
076 
0'44 
o ’ 28 
29 '9 
9*0 
i3'o 
8 91, Hi 
8' I 
35*9 
Dextrine . . . 
0,1 
:: 
22'9 
1*3 
31*6 
•• 
285 
540 
51 0 
50’0 
C.llulose . . . 
0*24 
046 
0'6o 
076 
! 0'44 
0'28 
33 
0'8 
2*5 
30 
25 
2'9 
t Mucilage. 
In the first place: — 
Aqueous Substances . — Water is an essential of life, and water should be 
of the purest character. There is no water more pure than that which has 
been distilled from dew and trebly distilled from the clouds of heaven and 
stored within the dainty myriad tanks of an apple or a pear ! There is here 
no fear of hard or chalky water or typhoid germs. Fiesh fruit juice gives 
water at its best. 
A water melon contains about 95 per cent, water, blackberries and 
currants 82 — 87 per cent., plums, peaches, apples, and pears, 82 — 85 per 
cent., grapes and cherries (which people wrongfully think are the most 
watery) from 78—80 per cent., cocoauut 46 per cent., walnut 44 per cent., 
chestnut 14 per cent. , almond 6 per cent. They are not greatly more watery 
than milk, which, with 54 per cent, water, is a complete infant’s food. 
With regard to the first essentials of food, fruits fulfil the functions of 
a perfect food. So that fruits are the first cure for drunkenness. 
With ordinary foods a man needs to drink, and, when lie needs drink, 
beer is one of the handiest, and spirits some of the most tempting, of drinks 
to indulge in; but with a meal of fruit no drink is needed, and so even 
drunkards, if fed on fruit, instinctively lose the craving for drink. 
