The vegetables and some fruits have their sugar so covered up by
other tastes that it does not help to make the food sweet. It does, of
course, serve for fuel. Bananas especially are fuel foods, containing
much starch when green, which changes to sugar as the fruit ripens.
The sweetest fruits are the dried ones--dates, figs, raisins, prunes.
They have so much sugar that they can well be used in place of candy.
_To Save Fat_, Although few common fruits and vegetables contain
fat, jam is a real fat-saver. It is of high fuel value, and has the
advantage of being a "spreading material" so that it can replace
butter with bread and cereals. Jam is of great importance in Europe
to-day and all the Governments have taken steps to keep up the supply.
It is a regular part of the English army ration.
_To Keep the Nation Well_. An increase in the use of vegetables and
fruits is practically sure to mean an increase in health. Many of us,
especially city-dwellers, do not eat enough of them. Many a young
girl who "does not like vegetables" probably owes part of her languor
to inadequate diet. The old-fashioned "touch of scurvy" formerly
noticed at the end of the winter and even now not an unknown thing,
was probably due to lack of vegetables in the winter diet. The
constipation which is so disturbingly prevalent can usually be cured
or prevented by eating vegetables and fruits in sufficient quantities.
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