Taste the Difficulty To the Editor of the "Nowri-Guina Danny News" highly-informative speeches delivered yesterday at. Y's Men Club by Drs. Ernest Tso, H.C. Hou and W. S. Fu on the sub: Jeet of Soybean Milk, sires was proerly laid on the nutritive value of {his vegetable product as a satisfectory Substitute for cow's mill.
'That. soybean milk is a valuable 00d, and in a compound can-be made 2 perfect food, superior even to cow's rill, is well known to all students of nutrition, and Dr. How very effec: tyely called attention to' this act [But to those who are interested popularizing the use of soybean milk, compounding it in such a manner a3 make it os palatable os it is nue fitious is a problem which the samples distributed at the luncheon yes-{erday indicate "has. not. yet been completely solved. 'The sensation the mouth, inter aria, was stil somewhat like' that after eating. spinach.
this connection the writer re-calle more than two years of experimentation, in'collaboration with Dr. Q''H. Chan, coveted almost exclu: sively to the' elaboration of formula that would satisfy. the question of thorough palatability, "1t"seems un~ Tikely "that unfit this Is "done the superiority' and economy" of soybean mille will establish its "popularity Over cow's milk. That. success. will frown persistent effort in this direc {ion however, can hardly be doubted, for already the latest formula is so far satisfactory that only those having a prejudice against a" fragrant culty {ase remain to be. pleased, The people of Shanghai should feel indebted to Drs. Tso, Hou and Fu for Publicizing their findings, and to the Y's Men Club for the public drama tization of focis which, when proper-appreciated, will do much toward Aévaneing huhan nutrition, TEmest KO. Mov. Shenghai, Dee. 13, An Error Corrected To the Editor of the "Nonti-Cuina Dany News"
Sm—It has been brought to my attention that in my letter which appeared in your correspondence column on December 7. 1 inadvertently eft out the name of the original supporter of the Shanghai Mefuvee "Children "Nutritional Vitamin Content Question To the Editor of the "Nommi-Cutwa Dany News"
SmI would appreciate it very much if any of your readers could inform me authoritatively whether the Juice of Chinese oranges when fed to infants gives the same beneficial effect as the juice of foreign oranges (Sunkist, etc.). What is the difference, if any, in the vitamin content of the local oranges as against that of the imported variety As the price of foreign oranges is so high at the present time, T am sure there must be many mothers, who, ko myself, would be glad to have this information.
Momex or Tunes.
Shanghai, Dee. 12, Mother's Query Answered To the Béitor of the '"Normu-Cuxa Dany News" sm,—Referring to the inquiry by Morien ov Tunes in your "corres Pondence column of December 1 would like to call her attention to Some experimental "studies - which were made five years ago at_ the Heary Lester "Institute of Medical Research and the results published "The Chinese Journal "of Phy-biology," Volumes 9 and 10, 1985 and 1996," and also. in "The Chinese Medicat Journal" "Volume $0, 1996, these publications "it was shown degnitely" by chemical - and animal fests, aswell "asin human beings, that' most' Chinese oranges. contain Vitamin C, just as much a3" the American " Sunkist' orange, One variety of Chinese orange Kwan che Int, or Swatow Aeweh Kan ENA, has an even higher Vita min © content than the Sunkist. was found. only. one variety of Chinese orange, namely Huang Yen mi chu frequently called "Wenchow" orange, a small flat orange with loose Skin, to have a low content of min'C, being about one-third of Vitamin C content of other types of orange. Swalow mandarin oranges WHGHE Hi, Canton oranges 26 Foochow oranges #% 44, Hunan oranges were found to have a high content of Vilamin C, comparable With that of American oranges (Sun= is H, C, Hoy, at., ate, Shanghai, Dee, 14
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