Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Value of Green Salads. [ARTICLE]

Value of Green Salads.

Persons of delicate digestive powers .should realize the value green salads taken with the proper proportion of sweet olive oil and acid which go to make a French dressing. The foolish fear of condiments which are the most valuable assistants to digestion has done more to made dyspeptics than probably any other one thing. Vegetable oils like olive oil are more easily digested than animal fats, and are rich in nutriment and soothing. Hence the hygienic value of simple salads which contain olive oil.—[New York Tribune.