Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1909 — Fruits As Food. [ARTICLE]

Fruits As Food.

By an arrangement of Providence, as beautiful as it is benign, there is an abundance of fruit for appetizing eating as well as for medicinal purposes, and the various acids and fruit values are highly recommended at this time of the year when it is claimed almost all kinds of malarial or other fevers are checked by the liberal use of fruit From the time we get the first luscious strawberries of early spring to the delicious peaches and grapes of fall, there is, indeed, an abundant store of fruits of so many kinds that one cannot tire of them. The common muskmelon is said to be one of the healthiest tonics for a weak stomach, and acids of lemons or limes, and the natural acid of berries, without seeds, are genuine tonics to the jaded system. Unless 1 fruit is thoroughly ripe and perfect it can even be injurious. Many persons cannot eat apples because the same acid is in the system amLapplesare-not healthy if they cause discomfort after eating. Many persons cannot eat grapes, unless the pulp is extracted and only the juice swallowed. But usually the majority of persons can eat freely of almost all kinds of fruit and should do so. Fruits «re cooling to the heated blood, they separate bile from the blood and exert nowerful medicinal effect upon the human system. But little sugar should be added to cooked fruits, and cream, white perfectly delicious on fruit, is not considered good, because it forms clabber as soon as it enters the warm stomach.