ntly to balance their diet or to
provide balanced menus for their families. A very little attention to
this subject will enable one to acquire sufficient knowledge of dietetic
needs to successfully govern the diet in a general way without weighing
or measuring the food. In the following table the number of calories
available in ordinary food portions is stated. Such a table should not,
of course, be memorized, but an occasional reference to it will enable
one soon to acquire a working knowledge of the food values of the main
articles in the dietary.

TABLE OF FOOD VALUES

THE WEIGHT (IN GRAMS, OUNCES AND ROUGH MEASURE) OF A PORTION CONTAINING
100 CALORIES OF EACH FOOD AND THE NUMBER OF CALORIES IN THE 100 IN THE
FORM OF PROTEIN, FAT AND CARBOHYDRATE.[A]
-----------------------------+----------------+-----+-----+------------------
| "Portion" |Wgt. of 100| Percent of
Name of Food | Containing | Calories |
| 100 Calories +-----+-----+-----+----+-------
| Roughly | | |Pro- |Fat |Carbo-
| Described |Gram |Ounce|tein | |hydrate
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VEGETABLES
-----------------------------+----------------+-----+-----+-----+----+-------
*Artichokes, as purchased, | | | | | |
average, canned | |430 |15. | 14 | 0 | 86
*Asparagus, as purchased, | | | | | |
average, canned | |540 |19. | 33 | 5 | 62
*Asparagus, as purchased, | | | | | |
average, cooked | |206 | 7.19| 18 |63 | 19
*Beans, baked, canned |Small side dish | 75 | 2.66| 21 |18 | 61
*Beans, Lima, canned |Large side dish |126 | 4.44| 21 | 4 | 75
*Beans, string, cooked |Five servings |480 |16.66| 15 |48 | 37
*Beets, edible portion, | | | | | |
cooked |Three servings |245 | 8.7 | 2 |23 | 75
*Cabbage, edible portion | |310 |17. | 20 | 8 | 72
*Carrots, edible portion, | | | | | |
average, fresh | |21