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A Wage Earner’s Home.
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salt has an affinity. for albumen, and that these two elements are required to build the gray matter in the brain, solar plexus, and nerve envelopes.

The Canadian Government in 1902 made a test of various foods, in which Grape-Nuts was shown to have over sixteen times the amount of digestible food as the least one tested, and about two-thirds more than the next best food made, and nearly double the energy-producing power of any other food known.

Extract from report of government officials at Ottawa, Can., shows the following analysis of Grape-Nuts:—

Moisture, 9.43%
Fat, 0.58%
Ash, 1.64%
Proteids (nitrogen x 6.25) 12.00%
Crude fibre, 2.03%
Dextrin, 24.87%
Starch by difference, 49.45%

Total

100.00%
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Calories per gramme, 3968.9%
Material soluble in
cold water 49.5%

Grape-Nuts excels other food in the following respects: It has less moisture, less fat and less starch; it has more dextrin and is more soluble than any other food.

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