Food Values of Candy
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According to the scientific publication of Sir Walter C. Hughes, the author of the famous reference book"Food Value of Candy "- published in the United States Of America circa 1917, the most popular varieties of the American candy have the following food values, which are measured in calories per pound.
The list below is the list of the most popular brands of candy, standard made by the hand in the pharmacies of the whole territories of The United States of America, and sold over the counters during 1900-1918. The pharmacies and drug stores of The USA in those days were the places of the social meetings, public attraction places and the dine out places, which served the candies, refreshment drinks and the ice-cream to the whole city or town.
Down below- the most popular candies of The United States Of America on January 1918
Caramels -1451 calories per pound
Choc Dipped Cream Caramels -2155 calories per pound
Chocolates Cream Centers -2092 calories per pound
Chocolates Nut Centers- 2498 calories per pound
Chocolate Tablets, etc- 2860 calories per pound
Cocoanut Bon Bons -1750 calories per pound
Cocoanut Caramels- 1675 calories per pound
Cream Filberts -1913 calories per pound
French Burnt Peanuts- 2040 calories per pound
Fudge- 1587 calories per pound
Gum Drops- 1685 calories per pound
Hard Boiled Candies- 1587 calories per pound
Jelly Beans- 1708 - calories per pound
Lozenges- 1795- calories per pound
Marshmallows- 1737- calories per pound
Stick Candy -1745 - calories per pound
The same authority, Sir Walter C. Hughes, gives the following table of the food and nutritive values of some nuts and other articles and popular staples of the USA in 1918. The nutritive values of the staples from which American candies were made, are presented in calories per pound.
Chocolate -2860 calories per pound
Cocoanut - 1730 calories per pound
Corn Starch -1675 calories per pound
Corn Syrup - r559 calories per pound
Walnuts -3300 calories per pound
Filberts -3290 calories per pound
Gelatine -1705 calories per pound
Pecans -3455 calories per pound
The high nutritive value of chocolate candy was recognized by the leading military authorities of the world, and especially in the countries of The USA and Germany already in 1914. The military forces, the boys of the American families in the battlefields at the front lines of WW1 were satisfying their cravings for something sweet with chocolate cakes and and candies of various kinds, sent to them from the loving families, left in their Motherland. Scientists of Medicine and Physiology have illustrated by the careful experiments that during the heavy exercise or exhausting labor, the sugar(glucose) in the muscles is heavily drawn on from the liver and blood to supply the body with the necessary sudden urge of fuel. Hence the longing for 'something sweet" is suddenly rising- which is actually the manifestation of the sudden hypoglycemia. The only way to correct his hypoglycemia is to consume the candy which can be readily assimilated, and which has been and still is the mostly and conveniently supplied in some form of candy to the soldier of The United States Of America since 1914.
The material was found in the magazine "THE SPATULA", YEAR 1918, MONTH OF JANUARY