Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1917 — The Potato. [ARTICLE]

The Potato.

The potato itself is not a particularly valuable food. It contains but a slight ingredient of. nitrogenous or nourishing matter, its content of starch constituting its principal food values; and as the requisite ration of starch is generally conveyed to the individual, under our ordinary arrangement of table supplies, by other foods, in bread, cornmeal, rice and other cereals, and in other vegetables, the function of the potato for purposes of nutriment is almost negligible. But its value as an accompaniment, a balance to more nutritious foods Is nevertheless great. It supplies not only the vegetable content which is so desirable a part of every individual’s diet, but the element of bulk which the normal stomach requires for its proper functioning.—Boston Transcript.