VALUE OF NUTS IN THE DIET 
Nuts are gaining in importance each year as a staple in the diet of 
many people because we are becoming more conscious of the mineral 
values of foods. Nuts are ready to eat as they come from the shell and 
cannot be improved upon by methods of cooking. I believe as time 
marches on that nuts will become more important in the diet and will 
eventually replace some of the proteins we are now using largely. With- 
out doubt nuts are small, tightly sealed packages containing highly con- 
centrated pellets of mineral nutrition direct from Mother Earth. Dr. 
John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan in an article in the 
seventh annual report of the N. N. G. A. wrote as follows: “In nutritive 
value the nut far exceeds all other food substances; for example the 
average number of food units per pound furnished by half a dozen of 
the more common varieties of nuts is 3231] calories, while the average 
of the same number of varieties of cereals is 1654 calories, half the 
value of nuts. The average food value of the best vegetables is 300 
calories per pound and of the best fresh fruits grown in this country is 
278 calories. The average food value of the six principal flesh foods is 
810 calories per pound, or one-fourth that of nuts.” 

A roadside planting of English and Black Walnuts in 
Lancaster County. 
