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RAISINS, THEIR NUTRI!
AND THE
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Prize essay written by Miss Frances
Wheeler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jas. D. Wheeer, of Newberry.,
Miss Wheeler is one of the graduates
of Winthrop college in the class of
1919.
We, Americans of today, have a
great responsibility placed upon us j
when it comes to supply the nation |
with food. In this day of stress and j
strain it is of great value for each.
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for us, and which can be obtained at
the least cost and expenditure of
energy. We know that food is
more nearly fixed requirement than
most other necessities of life. The
smaller the income the larger the
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food. For the ir^ajority of the people
at this time it is approximately :
true that "half the struggle of life
is a struggle for foods."
Before this, our early ancestors
lived on a diet consisting mainly of
fruits, and they were strong and
hardy. We agree with the back-toman
tttVia nffors tft iT1 li"fp
xiatuiw man t?uv va*v4.w w ?rw i
on the berries, fruits and nuts of the
forest. '
Most of us know what actual food :
-value fresh fruits are to us and we i
are beginning to put them on our <
table every day. But what of dried 1
fruits? One of the best means <
flddi-nc to our food sudoIv is the ]
drying of fruits. Raisins are possi- :
bly the best known dried food we 2
have. We would first like to know <
What varieties of 'grapes are best i
suited for the making of raisins and ]
where growij, The varieties of rais- ;
in grapes are few in number, the i
white Muscat, Malagra, Thompson i
and Sultana grape have been utilized o
for raisin purposes, but in recent, |
years the Malagra grape has been i
practically eliminated as a raisin s
grape, being found more profitable <
to market as a table grape. ' The <
greater part of the raisins consumed j-*
* in this country used to come from; i
Spain and Turkey. But California ?
alone now produces many times as
many raisins as Spain. There are <
many places in the United States']
where the raisin* industry is carried ^ 1
on but not on sucn an extensive scaxc <
as in California, which leads in the ;
industry.
When trying to realize the prob'
lem of feeding the nation, we should
remember that dried fruit is a very -j
compact food, and that there ' is
ipuch more food value in onie pound
of dried 'raisins' than there * is in
three or four pounds of fresh grapes.
Eaisins are more compact form of
food tiidn^ftfe grape due to the fact
that the wSSE^hag' been evaporated.
Not so lcfeg ago raisins, were regarded
as' a* luxury, but, however,
house drives are beginning zo appreciate
their great food value, and
have come 'to regard them as one of
the most important Of the staple articles
of the diet.
The foods yielding energy are the
carbhydrates. The raisi nis, therefore)
one of the most important , of
the energy-producing ^foods of man
because of per centage of
carbohydrates./*. This carbohydrate,
which forms 75 per cent of the edible
portion of the raisin, is in the
form of grape sugar, or fructose and
levulose.
Carefu? chemical analysis has
shown in recent years that this
grape sugar is practically predigested
in nature's laboratory, therefore,
ready for assimilation. It requires
ffca /Herflfltiivp nrn^ess. If
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some of this grape sugar were injected
int othe system, the blood
could take it up and use it immediately.
Raisins, therefore, form an imr
portant part in the dietary of the
sick and the young. Some of the
leading health institutions of the
country 3HQ nvtcu ocmxvc**. *? i
ums prescribe raisins specifically in
certain cases.
The value of the raisin as a food
is by no means confined to its per
centage of carbohydrates, for analysis
of the ash shaws that it is rich
in many of the elements essential
to health. For instance, calcium,
magnesium, potassium, sodium, phos-'
phorus, chlorine, sulphur and iron,
All of these are in form ready for
prompt assimilation.
The raisin is the richest of dried
fruits in the mineral elements of
iron .and phosphorus, and but very
few of the fruits and vegetables
contain a larger portion ox organic
iron. The amount varies in many
American dietaries.
We have only to refer to the composition
of raisins to be. convinced
that they are-one of the most economical
sources of;. carbohj?rates.
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riVE VALUE
IR PLACE IN THE DIET
One pound of raisins has an energyproducing
food value of from fifteen
hundred and fifty to sixteen hundred
and five calories, or approximately
one hundred calories to each
ounce of the edible portion. Its
protien value, according to analysis
of the most noted dietitions, is two
and six tenths pet* cent; fat, three
and three tenths per cent; and the
percentage of carbohydrates is seventy
six and one tenth per cent.
This* is, indeed, an important fact
now that sugar, heretofore our main
source of carbohydrates, ' is so
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scarce ana expensive.
There is . being put on the market
now raisin sugar, whfch is not so
familiar to us. The best grades of
raisin sugar have a decided raisin
flavor and are well classed as a luxury.
Here, indeed, we see a great
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iuture ior trie raism:
Raisins are an invaluable food.
The nitrogenous matter equals about
half of a hgh grade wheat flour, and
the process of curing the raisin has
rendered it the most easy to digest.
Quite recently there has appeared
on the market a seedless raisin. It
is a dried, white, seedless grape, of
medium size grown in California. In
comparison on an energizing, caloric
basis one pound of these raisins
equals six pounds of apples, five
pounds of bananas, four and onefourth
pounds of potatoes and threefourth
pounds of the edible portion
of fish, two pounds of eggs, and one
and one-third pounds of beef. But
look on the economical side?what
a difference in price! Note that raisins
cost ten to twelve cents a pound
and then compare them in monetary
iralue with the foods mentioned.
There might be an objection to
raisins on account of the seeds, for
some persons fear to eat them, and
especially to give them to small
r?>?iMrATv hprause 'of the Drescnce of
these seeds. It is said, that the
seeds may lodge in the appendix and
cause that very common and much
dreaded disease, appendicitis. But
on the whole, these fears may be regarded
as entrely groundless, while
the seeds of fruits may in some
cases have been found in the appendix
when it has been removed,
they can hardly ba regarded as the
real cause of the trouble. In gener
al, we may say tliat the seeds of
small fruits will be sent out from
the body without doing any harm.
Larger seeds, such as those of the
apple and the melon are objectionaI,
but these are not usually swallowed.
It cannot be said that to
swallow the seeds is absolutely with
out danger, yet the chance of harm
' emboli rtmf top shnhlri not for
that reason refuse to eat 4he raisin.
In the same way, play might be regarded
as cfangerous. Boys and
girls are often hurt, sometime seriously
and fatal at play. But that
is no reason for forbidding children
to play. In short, with watchfulness
and care we may eat the raisin
with the s^ed, but now that the
seedless raisin has been put on tnc
market, we can consume them.
Kaisin juice is a solution of food
elements of the finest qualities reads
for immediate absorption into the
body and use of the tissues. The
juice is obtained by boiling a pounc
of raisins in a pint and a half of wa
ter, and it contains twenty times as
much food value as beef tea. Besides,
the raisin juice is absolute}}
free from unwholesome properties
that is found in the Deer tea as wasu
products, uric acid, urea, carmine
and other tissue wastes; and th<
putrifactive bacteria germs; anc
lastley, the trichnoe, tape worm, anc
form the possibility of . carrying
specific disease, which are always
present in animal flesh.
A child needs more of the energy
giving foods than an adult, for h<
is more active. His bones need min
eral matter to develop properly, ant
fco must have tissue buildine food)
as well. For the most part of th<
day the child during the adolescen
period is sitting and when exercisi
is taken; it is usually for a very shor
time, hence the need for easily di
gested foods. Here is where th<
raisin can play a very importan
part. The child's lunch should b<
very simple and the mother shoul*
see that the food is nutritious, wel
balanced, easily digested, ana vanei
in character. Raisins make an ex
cellent filling for sandwiches for th?
child's lunch, as it is nourishing, ap
petizing, and ea&ily digested. Ho\
much better this is for the chili
than to have his appetite satisfies
with candy or other sweet food o
trash of some kind.
We hear so much now abou
standardizing the course of study ii
the schools, but is it not just as im
portant that we standardize th<
school lunch? For upon the child'
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health depends nis pnysicai aau JUC1J
tal efficiency, and his morality. Cai
it be expected that a child will d'
^efficient work when he has for hi
lunch a piece of sausage and a sog- u
igy biscuit?
i ] If the school lunch could be prej
pared at the school building and
[served while fresh it would be far
imore desirable. And this must injevitably
come to exist before the
. ideal of what a perfect school is
i actually to be.
| Great educators are convincing
us from day to day of certain principles,
but the food chemists are,
without a doubt, convincing us of
;the most fundamental principle connected
with the school?the proper
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i find a healthy body, you will like- (v
.wise find a healthy mind, which is
i ready to assimilate the facts pre
sented.
j The diet should be made up of base
'forming and acid forming elements,
,and it is distinctly preferable that
the balance fall on the basic side.
Since meats and eggs show a dis- ,
itinct excess, of the acid-forming elements,
while in vegetables and fruits JL
the base forming elements predomi- K
jnate, it follows that the greater C
'amount of meat eaten the more im- &
portant is it that fruits and vegeta- v
; bles be also used liberally. From fr
j what has been said it is expected j f
! that the eating of raisins will di- j {
:minish the acidity of the urine. This J
has been tested by Blatherwick, W
.who finds in all of his experiments f
;with vegetables and most of these!I
fruits that the urinary acidity is di- j E
j'minished as expected. This shows m
jthat the potential alkalinity had act- B|
jually been utilized in the nuetraliza- K
ition of acid of the body. ?
j The raisin added to ordinary iooas
increases the food value of the product
and is a distinct economy from
| this standpoint, while giving added
flavor to many products of the bak-135
- ery and dishes prepared' in the aver- :
' age home. For instance the Cali- an
.'fornia raisin bread is always popular tFi
.with every one. The addition ofjCC
' raisins to the bread greatly improves 11
its nutritive value as well as its fla-!
vor by supplying elements m wmcn j ^
ordinary bread is deficient, namely
precious vitamines which abound in' ^
fruits, and also alkaline salts which ! ba
keep the blood and other body ^
fluids in a healthy state. " The vrta-jjg
! mines that the raisin contain are j
very important, for without vita- jw
I mines we can not live. They atfe, j0L
therefore, spoken of as life-giving es
elements.
) This is a time when we are thinking'"about
economy and practicing it
;in the home. But when the house
wife would willingly;-make a sufrsti- Ni
x..i:? ;a Ko-arilHpred as to I
I'll LIU 11J dilC 10 V^WVU W?IMV?W.
i just what food to substitute in or- ?
| der that the family may have the
proper amount of nourishment.
Right at her command is the raisin <
ready to be served in any number of j
,jways, as breads, breakfast dishes,!
biscuits, cakes, filling for cakes, candies,
cookies, desserts, pies, puddings
salads and sandwich fillings.
| The grape vine way be utilized as
. a cover for walks and drives, or as{
'"a canopy over small out-buildings, j
!A cozy summer' veranda may be!
^'covered by grape vines, thus secur- j 1
> .ing the double advantage of a cool
v -J- -1- ciimmpy* And a I
, snauy uuu& uuuug ????.. _.
i supply of fruit in autumn. The raisin |
I'is not difficult to dry and may bej
done on a small scale in the average
home.
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[ I Raisins commend themselves in a
j! medicinal way. The mild laxative
(tendency of many fruits and vege*i
tables depends in part upon the fact
' that ttiey furninsh to the digestive |
tract a sufficiently bulky residue
I (largely of celulose and related .
k j substances) to stimulate mechanically
and render effective the peristal'
tic action, and in part upon the oc- |
j i currence in many fruits and some j
J vegetables of substances which asi ie J
'from the mechanical considerations,
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' evert a mild laxative effect.
Drying, dessication, or evaporation
is a favorite and primitive
r\ method of preserving meats, vege1
j tables and fruits. Dryness furnish":
es ideal antiseptic conditions as mic*
'ro-organisms must have moisture to
3 J grow and multiply. Most of these
51 miscroscopic organisms soon die
^ j when dried, hence the process has a
~ J decided sanitary advantage. This is
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truly a decided point in iavor w. me
raisin as a food.
fc Thus as civilization steadily makes
its advance the food chemist comes
g
j to realize more and more the great
1 value of fruits as a food, as an
2 energizing, easily digested and assimilated
food no other equals the
raisin. Hence we may uote with
Professor Josia Oldfield of London,
member of the Royal college of sur^
geons: "I put raisins as the first of
oil -Prtrt/lc T Vnr?w nf." and with Dr. J.
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H. Kellog, head of the great Battle
Creek sanitarium: "I would do
' much to promote the increased use
* of natures greatest foods?the rais1
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