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ject continued to use a largo proportion of fruit and nuts in the diet. 
With the exception of about 10 grams of cane sugar per day, the diet 
in the present study consisted entirely of fruit and nuts. The subject 
weighed at the commencement of the experimental period 170 pounds, 
and 168 pounds at its close. 
The details of the study follow: 
Table 12. — Weights and cost of food and nutrients consumed in dietary study No. 362. 
Kinds, amounts, and costs of different food 
materials. 
VEGETABLE POOD. 
Fresh fruits: Bananas, 4,196 grams, 65 cents (212); 
oranges, 6,294 gram , 83 cents (238) 
Dried fruits: Dates, 737 grams, 16 cents (36); figs, 
425 grams, 14 cents (35); raisins, 454 grams, 10 
cents (257) 
Canned fruits: Peaches, 340 grams, 11 cents (228) . 
Nuts: Almonds, 567 grams, 19 cents (249); peanuts, 
85 grams, 1 cent (255); walnuts, 1,418 grams, 47 
cents (223) 
Cane: Sugar, 85 grams, 1 cent (46) 
Total vegetable food 
Cost and composition of food per person per day 
Cost. 
Cents. 
18.50 
5.00 
1.38 
12 
Protein. 
Grams. 
18.30 
7.54 
.23 
59. 28 
85. 35 
Fat. 
(•'rams. 
2. 68 
156. 03 
158. 70 
Sugar, 
starch, 
etc. 
Grams. 
195.95 
126.29 
5. 34 
28.11 
10.63 
366. 32 
Fuel 
value. 
Calories. 
789 
488 
20 
1,598 
41 
2,936 
There were no restrictions regarding the kind and amount of fruit 
or nuts to be used in this dietary. On the other hand, the subject was 
instructed to eat all he wished of any fruit and nuts which he desired. 
Bananas and oranges, dates and raisins, almonds and walnuts were his 
favorite foods, though some other sorts of fruit and nuts were eaten. 
The protein in the diet thus selected is almost identical in amount with 
that furnished by the diet in stiHry No. 361, though less by 9 grams 
than in study No. 360, while the fuel value is higher in this test than 
in either of the other two. In all these tests the protein is below the 
requirement of the tentative American standard for a man at mod- 
erately active work. In the present test, however, the energy is equal 
to that called for by the standard. It will be seen by noting the data 
in Tables 50 and 51, experiments Nos. 117 and 418, that the unre- 
stricted fruitarian diet selected by the subject himself , which furnished 
nearly as much protein and rather more energy than was consumed 
by^ him when using his ordinary mixed diet, was superior as regards 
both protein and energy to the restricted diets of bananas, dates, and 
walnuts, and bananas, oranges, and walnuts, used in digestion experi- 
ments made with the same subject. 
As noted above, there was a loss of 2 pounds, but the initial weight 
was above the subject's normal, and during the test he was under 
unusual strain, both physical and mental, particularly on three days 
(April 11-13). It seems, therefore, that it is not just to ascribe the 
loss in weight during the experiment entirely to the fruit and nut diet. 
