What Is Their Product Like?

"It is a meal. They call it Ralston Health Club Breakfast Food, and though badly named, one can hardly say too much for it as a wholesome food. It is made from the very best wheat, the outer bran being removed by the cyclone process. This saves practically all the phosphates, which are usually lost in bolting out the bran by the old methods."

Then, It Is A Whole Wheat Meal?

"Not exactly. Part of the starch is removed in milling, making it richer in gluten. It contains less coarse bran than many other wheat preparations, and is therefore to be preferred for children. If hard water is used, the addition of cream makes it a perfect food. Such foods should not be used merely for breakfast, but should form a large part of our diet. Too much cannot be said in its favor."

Doctor, What Class Of People Are Especially Benefited By The Breakfast Foods, Or Wheat Germ Meal?

"Perhaps its greatest use is for old people who are too corpulent; as the heat producing and fat forming element is less than bread, it furnishes the necessary elements of life without the objections to many other foods, meat in particular. It contains usually small particles of bran, which is a great aid in preventing constipation. It is also particularly valuable as a food for growing children, because it furnishes the necessary things to make bone and tissue. Its nutritive value, pound for pound, is about 2½ times that of beef steak, and as it costs less than half as much per pound, its economy is apparent. It ought to a very great extent be substituted for meat, because it is a more wholesome food, and for many people even more palatable."

How Should It Be Cooked, Doctor?

"It requires a great deal of cooking. Some preparations of it are partly cooked. These can be made ready for use in from half an hour to an hour. Like oatmeal, if it has never been cooked at all, it requires three or four hours continuous boiling to properly cook it. The same rules apply as that of oatmeal. It may be eaten with milk and sugar, but dyspeptics should eat it without sugar. Another preparation, not so favorably well known, is cracked wheat. This does not differ materially from the entire wheat kernel, but is more easily cooked, because it is partly pulverized."

"Doctor, the public will call you a crank on the value of wheat foods."

"Well, names don't hurt me, while wheat foods help the people. So far, we have not discussed the cooked or predigested foods, and as some of these are so valuable as curative agents, they deserve more than ordinary mention."

In What Particular?

"You will better understand their value when I explain that the modern way of treating disease is by aiding nature. This is done in two ways: (1) By increasing the activity of the excretory organs, and in that way throwing off the poisonous or waste matter from the system. (2) By furnishing the necessary elements for the body that will be readily assimilated, notwithstanding the enfeebled condition of the system. The Sanitarium Health Food Co., of Battle Creek, Mich., have made some new foods that better aid nature than anything heretofore known - at least, for some diseases, it is doubtful if there is any remedy equal to Granose."

"Granose! What is it? If it has such remarkable effects, the doctors will have to go out of business."

"There is another way of looking at it. If all died right soon, there would be nobody to get sick, but if they are kept alive they are likely to do some imprudent thing that will result in their illness, and Granose is so good for the sick that the people should know about it. As to what it is, I will explain in detail. Choice wheat is first cleaned of ali dirt, chess, cockle and cut straws. It is then scoured and sterilized in such a way that all the starch cells are burst or broken apart. The next process is that of reducing the grains to thin flakes. This is done by machinery made especially for the purpose. The last important process is the roasting, which is done in such a way as to dextrinize the starch of the grain, and this makes a heat digested food."

"That seems to be quite an innovation in the manufacture of foods."

"Yes, the processes are quite original, each one of which are for a specific purpose. The object being to save all the valuable properties of the grain, convert what is commonly wasted into a valuable intestinal stimuant, harmless but effective, and at the same time make one of the most palatable and nourishing foods ever manufactured."