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Alsaker, R. L.

"Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency"

........... 15.4 2.1 2.8 78.4 1.3 1615
Figs............. 18.8 4.3 0.3 74.2 2.4 1475
Prunes........... 22.3 2.1 ... 73.3 2.3 1400
Raisins.......... 14.6 2.6 3.3 76.1 3.4 1605
Currants......... 17.2 2.4 1.7 74.2 4.5 1495
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Apricots, avocados, blackberries, cherries, cranberries, currants,
gooseberries, grapes, huckleberries, mulberries, nectarines, olives,
pineapples, plums, raspberries and whortleberries are some of the other
juicy fruits. They are much like the apple in composition, containing
much water and generally from 6 to 15 per cent of carbohydrates (sugar).
Olives and avocados are rich in oil.
You may classify rhubarb, watermelons and muskmelons as vegetables, if
you wish. On the table they seem more like fruit, which is the reason
they are given here. Melons are fine hot weather food. They are mostly
water, which is pure. During hot weather it is all right to make a meal
of melons and nothing else, at any time. The melons are so watery that
they dilute the gastric juice very much.


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