Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — FISH AS FOOD. [ARTICLE]

FISH AS FOOD.

la No Better for the Brain Than Other Meat One of the very interesting bulletins of the department of agriculture, by Dr. C. F. Langworthy, treats the subject of fish as an article of diet exhaustively and with good sense. We may, however, summarize the conclusions reached in a few words. Fish from the sea and from fresh water, in equally wholesome and nourishing. Weight for weight, fish contains rather less of the constituents of real food than meat. The difference is partly made up by the circumstance that fish costs less than meat per pound. One fact which it may be well to have widely known is that there is nothing whatever in the notion- that fish food is good for the brain, because it contains phosphorus. There is not more phosphorus in fish than in meat, and the brain does not require phosphorus. Probably the notion is too deeply rooted to be destroyed wholly. The amount of all kinds of fish taken from the sea, lakes and rivers by Americans is 850,000 tons a year—a huge'amount—and yet it is less than 25 pounds for each person of the population. Fish is much more expensive than it used to be. Prices of other things haye gone the value of the “finny tribe,” as the fine writers call them, has advanced—-that of the aristocratic salmon, and of the lowly cod, of the elegant trout and the ugly sturgeon, of the giant halibut and thetiny smelt—all are higher in price. The result is due largely to the modem system of quick *- transportation and cold storage. For Chicago can have codfish, if it wants it, almost as fresh as it goes to the Boston tables; New York eats California salmon; and Boston epicures feast on Florida and Georgia pompano—all sold “green,” that is, not frozen, and almost as fresh as if newly taken from the water.—Youth’s Companion. v ’ ’' ■ c ...' ..