Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1916 — Walnuts as Food. [ARTICLE]

Walnuts as Food.

A London medical journal recently published some interesting facts concerning walnuts as food. According to this authority, “thirty large walnut kernels contain as much food value as two and three-quarters pounds of lean beef.”. With beef worth approximately 20 cents a pound, this means that each walnut is worth about 2 cents as a food product as compared with beef. That these facts will greatly encourage the production and consumption of walnuts is hardly to be expected. There is some consolation, however, in the thought that when meat has become a luxury to be indulged only by the rich, the general consumer can keep his dinner very well—somewhat iik£ Peter Pumpkineater’s wife —in a walnut shell.