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Fat is found in butter, lard, drippings, milk, eggs, cheese, fish, meat, the cereals, leguminous vegetables, such as pease and beans, nuts, cocoa, and chocolate. Sugar abounds in fruits and vegetables, and is found in milk and cereals. Starch, which under the action of the saliva changes into glucose or grape-sugar, is present in vegetables and cereals.
Pancreatic juice emulsifies fat, and we have just seen how greedily worms devour fat; it dissolves fibrin, and worms eat raw meat; it converts starch into grape-sugar with wonderful rapidity, and we shall presently show that the digestive fluid of worms acts on starch.
A babe's salivary glands, until he be six or seven months old, does not secrete its proper fluid namely, ptyalin, and consequently the starch of the farinaceous food and all farinaceous food contains starch is not converted into dextrine and grape-sugar, and is, therefore, perfectly indigestible and useless nay, injurious to an infant, and may bring on pain and convulsions, and even death, hence, the giving of farinaceous food, until a child be six or seven months old, is one and the principal cause of the frightful infant mortality at the present time existing in England, and which is a disgrace to any civilized land!
*B.H. Chamberlain. "Rice, which is mainly carbohydrate, is transformed into grape-sugar by the action of the saliva. This practice is still common in China and used to be so in Japan where it is now rarely met with. It was employed only until dentition was complete." "To what we should call education, whether mental or physical, there is absolutely no reference made in the histories.
Cane-sugar and glucose, or grape-sugar, are the two recognized varieties, though the making of beet-sugar has become an industry here as well as in France. Grape-sugar requires to be used in five times the amount of cane, to secure the same degree of sweetness. Honey also is a food, a concentrated solution of sugar, mixed with odorous, gummy, and waxy matters.
And when the first days of spring come the snow melts, the starch of the seed has changed to grape-sugar, and begins to germinate; so that the young plants will in no way be damaged by subsequent droughts, nor by the frosts which sometimes come after heavy rains in August and much injure the crops.
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