Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1915 — Hygienic Value of Salads [ARTICLE]

Hygienic Value of Salads

Probably no detail of the Fmech menuo is so important to us as the salad. Very few American families know what an invaluable delicacy a genuine French salad, with a dress ag of good olive oil and pure, fragrant vinegar, is—invaluable, because of its effec on the digestion and health. There is very little nourishment In naiad leaves until the oil has been added, and the oil is what many of us need, according to the doctors, who deplore the insufficiency of fat in the average American’s diet. It is ex-‘ eluded therefrom for the very good reason that the average American finds it difficult to digest. But it is right there that the salad comes to the rescue. The vinegar in it, if genuine, excites by its fragrance and atei<|ity the digestive glands not only in the mouth and stomach, but in the pancreas, which acts on all the constituents of food, particularly the fats. There would he vastly less Intestinal Indigestion In this country if every family followed the French custom of eating salad at least once a day.