. First book in physiology and hygiene . last the best! Do you knowhow bread is made ? It contains flour, salt, a littlelard or other fat, and yeast (which is made fromhops, or from hops and potato). To what king-dom, then, does bread belong? As the chiefthing in bread is the flour, we may class it as avegetable food. Flour contains a great deal ofstarch. Of what use then is it to your body ? Bread is sometimes called the staff of life, be- — 26 cause it is so nourishing. But as it contains only averj little fat, it is not a complete food unless it is eaten with butter, orsome other oily food.
. First book in physiology and hygiene . last the best! Do you knowhow bread is made ? It contains flour, salt, a littlelard or other fat, and yeast (which is made fromhops, or from hops and potato). To what king-dom, then, does bread belong? As the chiefthing in bread is the flour, we may class it as avegetable food. Flour contains a great deal ofstarch. Of what use then is it to your body ? Bread is sometimes called the staff of life, be- — 26 cause it is so nourishing. But as it contains only averj little fat, it is not a complete food unless it is eaten with butter, orsome other oily you tell why?In Germany, cheeseis often used onbread in place ofbutter; and in Italy,olive oil is used. We should noteat freshly bakedbread. It forms asoft pasty mass inthe mouth; and,when swallowed,makes a solid lumpin the stomach thatis very hard for thestomach to dio:est. Graham bread aswell as white breadis made from can make a bread from corn flour, too, whichwe call corn bread. What other kinds of breaddo you know ?. Wheat. ^t Grains.— Oats, corn, loheat, rice, rye, buckwheat,and barley are grains. All grains are chiefly starch,and are therefore very nourishing. What foods do you eat thatare made from oats ? from rice ?from rye? from buckwheat? frombarley ? Wheat belongs to the grassfamily; and like its cousins, it haslong, hollow stems. The heads ofwheat, as they ripen, turn fromgreen to yellow and grow head of wheat shows acluster of husks or shells, andinside of each of these is a littleseed or grain of wheat. It is thisinside part that is ground up forflour. Have you ever opened a hempseed such as you feed your bird ?If so, you know that it is w^hiteinside, though a hght brown onthe outside. Just so, the Avheatgrain has an outer part and aninner part. The inner part iswhite; and the outer part, darker. com.
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