There is not so much difference in the
nutritive value as there is in the cost, as the following examples of
"meat scores" will show:
Meat Score value
and fish per pound
Beef, lean round 1,664
Beef, medium fat rump 1,221
Beef, porterhouse steak 1,609
Veal, lean leg 1,539
Lamb, medium fat leg 1,320
Fowl 1,453
Codfish, salt 1,710
Codfish, fresh[2] 519
Salmon, canned 1,074
[2] The low score of fresh cod is due chiefly to the absence
of fat and the presence of water.
The great value of milk in the diet has already been discussed. The
"score" of milk is about the same as that for sugar (milk, 761; sugar,
725); hence, if sugar is ten cents a pound and milk eighteen-cents a quart
(about nine cents per pound), milk is cheaper than sugar. Yet there are
people cutting down their milk supply when the cost is only thirteen or
fourteen cents per quart on the ground that milk is too expensive! The
economical housewife should have no compunctions in spending from
one-fifth to one-fourth of her food money for this almost indispensable
food.
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