Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — Drinking Water With Food. [ARTICLE]

Drinking Water With Food.

It is a trifle disconcerting to be told that when the thrifty housewife expends from 20 to 28 cents per pound for the best cuts of beef about 60 per cent of the sum is being paid for water. Yet such is the case, about 60 per cent of the bulk of uncooked beef or mutton being water. . . . The flesh of pigeons is about 70 per cent water, that of fowls and ducks 65 per cent, while a really fat goose may have as little as 88 per cent of water in its composition. The flesh of fish varies considerably in the quantity of water contained, the figures ranging, according to the kinds of fish, from 40 to 80 per cent —Popular Mechanics.