What foods feed us / by Eustace Miles.

  • Eustace Miles
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[1905]
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Credit: What foods feed us / by Eustace Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which have been examined—including the tissues of children—only about half the right amount of potash and phosphates have been found.” Without these “salts” the organs were weak. Mr. Broadbent compares them to fossil organs, which may have the right shape, but are not living. Potash is well known as a preventive or cure of scurvy and other skin troubles. Mr. Broadbent’s Table gives the grains of potash and phosphorus in a pound of various fruits. Notice two points here—first, that bran is extraordinarily rich in phosphoric acid; then, that by merely putting the bran into our bodies we do not necessarily use all that phosphoric acid. It is not enough to eat, we have to extract and assimilate. It may be better to boil the bran, and Mr. Broadbent advises a good tablespoonful of bran per head. If you put it in a little muslin bag and leave it to simmer in the water, the extract will be rich in potash and soluble phosphates. Grains of Potash and Phosphates per Pound (Broadbent) Potash. Phosphoric acid. Bran 93*i 201-6 Beans 80-5 55*3 Peas 68-6 61 '6 Rye flour 45*5 59*5 Cabbage-heads 42'0 14-6 Barley flour 40-6 66-5 Potatoes 39*2 12-6 Beets 30-1 S'6 Oatmeal 29-4 38*5 Carrots 22'4 77 Turnips 21 'O 7.7
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