A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpointCraven, J. H. (John Henry)
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A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint
Craven, J. H. (John Henry)
Children -- Diseases; Chiropractic; Sanitation
Pasteurization furnishes a purified milk but not a pure milk. It is
undoubtedly the best means of preservation and may be considered as
bearing the same relation to purification of milk as filtration bears
to purification of water.
The use of formaldehyde, borax and boracic acid is as objectionable
in artificial preservation of milk as in the preservation of meat and
other foods and should not be tolerated.
Condensed Milk
Milk is condensed by removing some of the water. It is made either
from skim or whole milk. It may be unsweetened or sweetened with cane
sugar. Condensed and evaporated milk should contain a label stating
the grade of milk used. Condensed and evaporated milk are poor in
vitamin C.
Dry Milk
It has been found that by certain processes it is possible to dry
milk, taking all the water out and leaving a powder. This may be
accomplished and still retain most of the nutritive value of the
milk. Vitamin fat soluble A and water soluble B remain practically
the same, but water soluble C vitamin is diminished. Babies fed
on dried milk will thrive, but orange juice or some other food
containing antiscorbutic properties must be given to compensate for
the loss of vitamin C. Dried milk provides an adequate supply to many
parts of the country and to the cities, where it is difficult to
obtain fresh milk.
Butter
Butter is produced by placing cream in a proper apparatus and
agitating or churning it until the fat globules coalesce into lumps.
These lumps are then taken out of the serum known as the buttermilk
and the water and milk worked out until it becomes more or less
solid. When butter has had the milk and water worked out of it the
constituents should be in about the following proportions: Fat,
83.5%; curd, 1.0%; ash, 1.5%; milk sugar, 1.0%; water, 13.0%. By
weight butter should never contain more than 16% of water and should
contain at least 80% of fat.
Owing to the conversion of the fat into fatty acids butter will, in
the course of time, become acid, rancid and unfit for table use.
Oleomargarine is a product resembling butter. It is manufactured from
animal fats and vegetable oils. It is not as desirable an article
of diet as butter. It contains margarine fat and only .5% of the
volatile fats, while butter fat contains about 8%.
Oleomargarine may be distinguished from butter by boiling. Butter
boils more quietly and a foam is formed on top, while oleomargarine
sputters much like oil mixed with water and there is little or no
foam produced.
Cheese
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