This section is from the book "A System Of Diet And Dietetics", by George Alexander Sutherland. Also available from Amazon: A System of Diet and Dietetics.
Most of the analyses, except where otherwise stated, are those given by the makers.
Name. | Protein. | Fat. | Carbo-hydratee. | Ash. | Remarks. | ||
Soluble. | Starch. | ||||||
Albany Food...... | 8.60 | 950 | 210 | 79 | .40 | 040 | Much unchanged starch. |
Allenbury No. 1 Food . | 1.82 | 10.70 | 1679 | 65.51 | 110 | 4.08 | Analysis by Fresenius. |
570 | 9.70 | 1400 | 66.85 | - | 3.75 | ||
8330 | 1.56 | 2.30 | 7.20 | - | 060 | Ready for use : Hutchison. | |
Allenbury No. 2 Food . | 224 | 10.23 | 14.94 | 6754 | 1.24 | 381 | Analysis by Fresenius. A malted meal plus No. 1 Food. |
3.90 | 9.20 | 12.30 | 7210 | - | 3 50 | ||
Allenbury No. 3 Food . | 3 00 | 10.33 | 105 | 22.21 | 62.91 | 060 | Analysis by Fresenius. Partly malted wheaten flour. |
6.50 | 9.20 | 100 | 82 | .80 | 050 | ||
American-Swiss Food | 5.68 | 10.54 | 581 | 4535 | 3000 | 1.21 | Much cane sugar. |
Anglo-Swiss Food..... | 650 | 10.26 | 491 | 4643 | 29.48 | 202 | Much cane sugar. |
Bananina....... | 9 50 | 410 | 0.40 | 84 | 00 | 207 | A banana flour. |
Benger's Food...... | 11.29 | 10.43 | 110 | 9.90 | 6630 | 0.96 | Much digested in preparing. |
Carnrick's Soluble Food . | 517 | 16.69 | 553 | 2811 | 41.50 | 3 00 | Much unchanged starch. |
Chapman's Whole Flour . | 8.40 | 9.40 | 200 | - | 79.30 | 090 | A wholemeal flour. |
Cheltine Infant's Food . | 7.20 | 16.20 | 3.92 | 71 | 00 | 1.83 | Contains much starch. |
Cheltine Maltose Food | 4.60 | 5.30 | 0.27 | 87.60 | - | 2.25 | Fully malted. |
Coomb's Malted Food | 7 90 | 1210 | 2.80 | 76 | .80 | 040 | Much unaltered starch. |
Cremalto............. | 2226 | 640 | 20.26 | 44 | .67 | 1.79 | Cream and malt. |
Diastased Farina.......... | 8.30 | 760 | 1.30 | 8i | .70 | 110 | Carbo-hydrates said to be made soluble in preparation. |
Fairchild's Milk Powder . | 554 | 119 | 005 | 92.00 | - | 1.22 | Practically milk sugar. |
Falona............... | 7 00 | 8 40 | 350 | 79 | .9 | 1.20 | Cereals and a fat-containing bean. |
Frame Food.......... | 762 | 1369 | 0.44 | 2233 | 54.96 | 0.96 | Not so rich in minerals as claimed to be. |
Franco-Swiss Food .... | 443 | 13 00 | 370 | 4609 | 30.86 | 1.42 | Much cane sugar. |
Horlick's Malted Milk . . . | 254 | 15.40 | 8.87 | 6921 | 018 | 3.80 | Desiccated milk, 50.0; wheat flour, 26.25; barley malt, 2300; and sod. bicarb., 075. |
(ready for use) Chittenden | 9240 | 115 | 060 | 538 | 0.29 | ||
Horlick's Malted Food . . . | 9.70 | 10.43 | 034 | 76.83 | 220 | - | Almost completely malted. |
Hovis Babies' Food .... | 3.70 | 7.70 | 020 | 8660 | - | 1.82 | Fully malted. |
Hovis No.2 Food......... | 2.40 | 5.70 | 010 | 90 | 10 | 1.70 | Starch 7.5 per cent. |
Imperial Granum.......... | 11.50 | 1091 | 0.64 | 573 | 7022 | 100 | _ |
I. and I. Food...... | 5.50 | 1030 | 2.30 | 80 | .50 | 1.40 | Mainly starch. |
John Bull No. 1 Food . . . | 3.98 | 21.00 | 11.87 | 5429 | - | 5.32 | Maltose, 2132; lactose, 2942; dextrin, 355. |
John Bull No. 2 Food . . . | 1.68 | 11.06 | 068 | 3765 | 43.30 | 1 74 | Maltose, 2331; dextrose, 132; dextrin, 538; lactose, 7.65. |
Kufeke's Infant Food | 837 | 1324 | 1.69 | 2371 | 50.76 | 2.23 | Made in Germany. |
Lahmann's Vegetable Milk . | 24.40 | 750 | 2460 | 41 | .80 | 1.50 | Made from nuts and can be added to milk. |
Loeflund's Cream Emulsion . | 24 32 | 823 | 15.32 | 4943 | - | 2.60 | A thick brown paste made from milk and malted wheat extract. |
Name. | Water. | Protein. | Fat. | Carbo-hydrates. | Ash. | Remarks. | |
Soluble. | Starch. | ||||||
Maltico Food...... | 236 | 1607 | 11.80 | 65 89 | 3.88 | Lancet analysis : Composed of milk and malted cereals ; no starch. | |
1.63 | 1519 | 1719 | 63.00 | 2.99 | |||
Manhu Infant Food .... | 8.80 | 8.70 | 5.60 | 75.90 | 100 | Desiccated milk and malted cereals ; much starch. | |
Mellin's Food...... | 1237 | 1007 | 018 | 6818 | - | 3.75 | Analysis by makers. The other two from other sources. It is a desiccated malt extract from wheat and barley. |
613 | 7.81 | 0.29 | 75.65 | 693 | 317 | ||
6.30 | 790 | trace | 82.00 | - | 3.80 | ||
Milo Food....... | 381 | 14.34 | 5.50 | 5893 | 15.39 | 203 | Desiccated milk with maltose and dextrins 27.36, and cane sugar 25 per cent. |
Moseley's Food | 1084 | 1478 | 1.84 | 21.76 | 4906 | 1.72 | Complete conversion during mixing. |
Muffler's Food...... | 4.76 | 1519 | 510 | 72 42 | 2.43 | Analysis by Stutzer and Richmond. Desiccated milk, powdered white of egg, wheat flour and lactose. | |
5.63 | 14.34 | 5.80 | 2741 | 4443 | 2.39 | ||
Neaves Food........... | 503 | 13 20 | 1.70 | 471 | 7427 | 109 | Practically all starch. |
Nichol's Food of Health . . . | 11.90 | 770 | 1.70 | 76 90 | 1.75 | Mainly starch. | |
Nutroa Food....... | 6.80 | 15.90 | 10.30 | 66 00 | 1.00 | Cereals plus pea-nut flour ; hence the fat. | |
Opmus Food......... | 10.90 | 910 | 100 | - | 78.60 | 0.40 | A granulated wheat flour. |
Ovaltine.......... | 3.30 | 1201 | 1.98 | 76.70 | 2.57 | 3.44 | A Swiss product. |
Phosphatine, Fallieres | 5.85 | 2.35 | 1.92 | 5668 | 3198 | 1.22 | Calcium phosphate, cane sugar and starch of potato, rice, arrowroot, sago, cocoa. |
Ridge's Food...... | 923 | 9.24 | 0.63 | 519 | 7796 | 0.60 | Mainly starch. |
Robinson's Groats...... | 10.40 | 11.30 | 1.60 | - | 7500 | 1.70 | Ground oats, without husk. |
Robinson's Patent Barley- | 1010 | 513 | 097 | 4 11 | 7776 | 1.93 | Ground pearl barley. |
Savory & Moore's Food . | 534 | 10.79 | 106 | 27.81 | 54 09 | 091 | Wheat flour and malt; much grape and cane sugar. |
834 | 9.63 | 0.40 | 4483 | 3636 | |||
Scott's Oat Flour..... | 5.80 | 9.70 | 500 | - | 78.20 | 1.30 | A fine oat flour. Cf. Groats. |
Theinhart's Infantina. | 5 03 | 1617 | 5.00 | 53.61 | 16.72 | 3.47 | Desiccated milk, diastased cereals, lactose and cane sugar. |
Theinhart's Hygiama. | 475 | 21.22 | 1005 | 4910 | 11.33 | 3.55 | More concentrated and a little cocoa added. The fat is partly cocoa butter. |
Triticumina Food.......... | 860 | 12.50 | 2.20 | 75 | .7 | 100 | Mainly starch. |
Virol........ | 11.66 | 6.43 | 19.72 | 61.61 | 0.58 | The first analysis is the one given by the makers. | |
24 04 | 416 | 10.75 | 59.25 | - | 1.80 | ||
Well's & Richardson's Food | 776 | 11.85 | 1.64 | 39 00 | 3643 | 2.61 | Partly malted. Contains much cane sugar and no milk. |
heat Flour....... | 9 02 | 7.47 | 101 | 566 | 7607 | - | - |
Wheat flour, baked .... | 7.78 | - | 0.41 | 14.29 | 67 60 | - | - |
Worth's Perfect Food . . . | 2.40 | 1110 | 2.00 | 83 | .50 | 0.50 | - |
In the above analyses cellulose, gum, etc., are not always included; sometimes they are included under the heading of starch as insoluble carbo-hydrates. The estimation of phosphorus in terms of phosphoric acid is of doubtful value and is not given.
 
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