granular | 3 | .44 | 1.8 | 3.33 | .23| .06|2.48 |5,534 Hominy | 4 | .62 | 2.4 | 2.50 | .16| .01|1.97 |4,178 Samp | 5 | .78 | 3.0 | 2.00 | .13| .01|1.57 |3,342 Flaked and | | | | | | | | parched | 13 | 1.73 | 7.5 | .77 | .06| .01| .60 |1,335 Rice preparations: | | | | | | | | Rice, polished | 8 | 1.48 | 4.7 | 1.25 | .07| | .94 |1,855 Flaked, steam | | | | | | | | cooked | 15 | 2.31 | 9.8 | .67 | .04| | .51 |1,026 Miscellaneous foods | | | | | | | | for comparison: | | | | | | | | Bread, white | 6 | .74 | 5.0 | 1.67 | .14| .02| .87 |2,009 Do | 5 | .62 | 4.2 | 2.00 | .16| .02|1.04 |2,406 Crackers | 10 | 1.10 | 5.3 | 1.00 | .09| .08| .71 |1,905 Macaroni | 12.5| 1.08 | 7.5 | .80 | .09| .01| .58 |1,328 Beans, dried | 5 | .28 | 3.5 | 2.00 | .35| .03|1.16 |2,868 Peas, dried | 5 | .26 | 3.4 | 2.00 | .38| .02|1.20 |2,974 Milk | 3 | .94 | 9.7 | 3.33 | .11| .13| .17 |1,030 Do | 3.5| 1.09 | 11.3 | 2.86 | .09| .11| .14 | 885 Sugar | 5 | | 2.8 | 2.00 | | |2.00 |3,515 Do | 6 | | 3.4 | 1.67 | | |1.67 |2,940 ————————————————————+—————+———————+———————+———————+————+————+——————+————— The less expensive breakfast foods, such as oatmeal and cornmeal, are as economical as flour, and, as they supply heat and energy in abundance, as shown by above table, they should be supplied in the diet in proportion to the energy required. They are easily prepared for porridge, requiring simply to be boiled in water, with a little salt. For invalids, children and old people, breakfast foods prepared in gruels and porridges are valuable as they are easily digested. All should be thoroughly cooked so as to break the cells enclosing the starch granules. * * * * * =Predigested Foods.= Some foods are claimed to be partly digested and thus valuable for those with weak stomachs, but breakfast foods are largely starch and the gastric juices are not active in the digestion of starch. It is digested by saliva and the ferment diastase in the intestines. (Diastase is a ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice, which changes starch into dextrin and maltose, in which form it is more easily acted upon by the intestinal juices.)