This section is from the book "Practical Dietetics With Special Reference To Diet In Disease", by William Gilman Thompson. Also available from Amazon: Practical Dietetics with Special Reference to Diet in Disease.
Energy developed by one ounce of the following foods when oxidised in the body.
Food Stuff. | With usual percentage of water. | One ounce water-free. |
Foot tons. | Foot tons. | |
Beef (best quality), uncoked | 48.5 | 199 |
Meat (served to soliders), uncoked | 57.8 | 243 |
Beef (fattened), uncooked | 96.0 | 280 |
Meat, cooked | 102.6 | 240 |
Corned beef (Chicago) | 124.0 | 217 |
Salt beef | 52.0 | 138 |
Salt pork | 71.6 | 166 |
Fat pork | 202.0 | 336 |
Dried bacon | 292.3 | 346 |
Smoked ham | 179.6 | 267 |
Whitefish | 44.3 | 209 |
Poultry | 50.7 | 204 |
87.5 | 147 | |
Wheat flour | 123.6 | 146 |
173.3 | 189 | |
126.5 | 141 | |
130.0 | 154 | |
Maize | 132.0 | 160 |
Macaroni | 122.7 | 146 |
Millet | 125.9 | 149 |
116.4 | 138 | |
Peas (dired) | 118.9 | 151 |
33.0 | 141 | |
Carrots | 14.3 | 137 |
13.0 | 158 | |
344.5 | 367 | |
67.3 | 265 | |
140.0 | 245 | |
Milk (cow's) new | 26.9 | 225 |
Cream | 109.2 | 365 |
Skimmed milk | 20.4 | l8l |
126.4 | 128 | |
Pemmica | 270.1 | 293 |
Ale (Bass's bottled) | 30.0 | 260 |
Stout (Guinness) | 41-5 | 360 |
 
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