Excerpt from Analysis and Cost of Ready-to-Serve Foods: A Study in Food Economics A celebrated school mistress once asked that a book be written which would tell her what apple sauce was Without introducing the terms protein, carbohydrate and fat. Alas, that is impossible. It would be like teaching architecture without mentioning brick, gran ite and marble But the knowledge IS not recondite. Protein is the characteristic solid constituent of muscle. The pro tein framework is essential for the manifestation of those properties whose aggregate is called life. And besides this, water and salts enter into the organization of the living particles. These salts are as varied as are those of the sea water and they are essential to living things. In vertebrates, salts are further used to build the larger framework of the bones. When various molecules of protein are united in a certain definite order with water and salts, life is possible. If the definite order is disturbed, death results. Life depends on the arrangement of the particles. One recalls the story of the Yankee who, during the win ter months, sold a sure cure for potato bugs with the caution not to be opened till wanted for use and with the promise of instructions for use inside the package. 'in the summer time, on opening the package the farmer found two small cubes with the directions place the potato bug on one cube and press firmly with the other. Death not only takes place through such disarrangement of the particles, but also it may follow on the influence of a poison which pre vents the proper functioning of the living thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.