. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Jan. 11, 1900. The food value of sufjar has been underestimated in the past. Children are even to-daj' discourag'ed from eating candy, which their system craves, and are usually obliged to content themselves with penny goods and other cheap and inferior sweets. And this in the face of the fact that Nature has given her most emphatic approval of sugar as food by placing it in almost all animal secretions for the young. It occurs in predominant quantity in the milk of all mammalia ; in human kind, constituting over one-half of th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Jan. 11, 1900. The food value of sufjar has been underestimated in the past. Children are even to-daj' discourag'ed from eating candy, which their system craves, and are usually obliged to content themselves with penny goods and other cheap and inferior sweets. And this in the face of the fact that Nature has given her most emphatic approval of sugar as food by placing it in almost all animal secretions for the young. It occurs in predominant quantity in the milk of all mammalia ; in human kind, constituting over one-half of the entire solids, and double the amount of any other constituent. The sugars are the most available of the heat and energy producers. Recent investigations in Germany, France and Italy have shown that sugar acts as an imme- diate invigorator when fed to persons in extreme fatigue. People at extremely hard work immediately feel the re- cuperating effect of a sugar diet. The governments of Germany and the United States have added sugar to the rations of their soldiers. In this country the sugar is sup- plied in the shape of candy. Candies usually consist of mixtures of sucrose, dextrose and dextrin. There can lie little doubt that if honey were substituted in part for candy in the soldier's dietary, even more favorable results would be obtained, because, first, honey is in a sense a predi- gested sugar, and the demand on the digestive forces is lessened; second, honey consists of almost pure invert- sugar, while candies contain dextrin of unknown food value, but certainly not as immediately available as sugar ; third, honey is produced by bees unskilled in the art of sophistication, and above the practice of artificially flavor- ing and coloring, while candy is a product of human in- genuity, and may contain unwholesome constituents ; candy usually contains glucose, a product not above suspicion ; honey is made in Nature's laboratory; and, fourth, honey can more easily be used as
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