Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — Bread an Aliment [ARTICLE]

Bread an Aliment

Bread does not contain a sufficient quantity of albumen,, needed by the organism. An analysis of bread goes to show that It contains a relatively large amount of water, L e„ over 40 per cent, but a relatively small quantity of nitrogen compounds, vhn, seven to eight per cent. Of fats it generally contains very little, but of substances free of nitrogen, such as starch, large quantities. From thia It follows, asserts a writer, that bread can by no means be a “food” but at best an aliment