Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1917 — Milk Is a Cheap Tissue Builder, Say Food Experts. [ARTICLE]

Milk Is a Cheap Tissue Builder, Say Food Experts.

A quart of milk is equal in food value to eight eggs, a pound of steak, or half a pound of cheese. This is the statement of the committee on utilization and economy, Kansas council of defense. Milk; it is pointed out, is a cheap’ tissue builder, because the protein that it contains is of a kind particularly valuable for building tissue. Ordinarily milk is the cheapest and most valuable source of lime and phosphorous. Milk is deficient in iron, but the iron tha ( t it contains is particularly well utilized by the body.