Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — FOOD VALUE OF CHOCOLATE [ARTICLE]

FOOD VALUE OF CHOCOLATE

Important Fact to Which It Would Seem Too Little Attention Has Hitherto Been Given. In the recommendation for food conservation at home one article has been considerably ignored. This fact Is the more surprising because of the article’s recognized value as a campaign and outdoor food. Frederic C. Fenger, in the account of his cruise, “Alone in the Caribbean,” gives an interesting quotation from Pere Labat, the old French missionary to Martinique at the end of the seventeenth century: “As for me, I stand by the advice of the Spanish doctors who agree that there

is more nourishment in one ounce of chocolate than in half a pound of beef.” As Labat was a genuine Parisian, his opinion of food is to be trusted. It may be noted, also, that the chocolate was sweetened with “brown sirupy sugar.” During the Boer war it was Queen Victoria who made chocolate famous, so to speak, by sending to the British troops quantities of the sweetened cakes.