Dietetics for Nurses

by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Meats, fish, broths, gelatin, eggs, butter, olive oil, coffee, tea, and cracked cocoa.

Foods arranged approximately according to per cent of carbohydrates

	5%	10%	15%	20%
Vegetables, Fresh or Canned	Lettuce	Pumpkin	Greens	Potatoes
	Cucumbers	Turnip	Peas	Shell beans
	Spinach	Kohl-rabi	Artichokes	Baked beans
	Asparagus	Squash	Parsnips	Green corn
	Rhubarb	Beets	Lima beans (canned)	Boiled rice
	Endive	Carrots		Boiled macaroni
	Marrow	Onions		Prunes
	Sorrel	Mushrooms
	Sauerkraut
	Beet greens
	Dandelion
	Swiss chard
	Celery
	Brussels sprouts
	Water cress
	Sea kale
	Okra
	Cauliflower
	Eggplant
	Cabbage
	Radishes
	Leeks
	String beans
	Broccoli
	Tomatoes
Fruits	Ripe olives (20% fat)	Lemons	Apples	Plums
	Grapefruit	Oranges	Pears	Bananas
		Cranberries	Apricots
		Blackberries	Blueberries
		Gooseberries	Cherries
		Peaches	Currants
		Pineapple	Raspberries
		Watermelon	Huckleberries
Nuts	Butternuts	Brazil nuts	Almonds	Peanuts 40%
	Pignolias	Black walnuts	English walnuts	Chestnuts
		Hickory	Beechnuts
		Pecans	Pistachios
		Filberts	Pine nuts
Misc.	Unsweetened and unspiced pickle, clams, oysters, scallops, liver, fish roe.		Reckon available carbohydrates in vegetables of 5% group as 3%, of 10% group as 6%.

30 grams (1 oz.) contains approximately:

Key:
A	Protein Gm.
B	Fat Gm.
C	Carbohydrate Gm.
D	Calories

	A	B	C	D
Oatmeal, dry weight	5.0	2	20.0	110
Meat (uncooked ham)	6.0	3	0.0	50
Meat (cooked ham)	8.0	5	0.0	75
Broth	0.7	0	0.0	3
Potato	1.0	0	6.0	25
Bacon	5.0	15	0.0	155
Cream, 40%	1.0	12	1.0	120
Cream, 20%	1.0	6	1.0	60
Milk	1.0	1	1.5	20
Bread	3.0	0	18.0	90
Butter	0.0	25	0.0	240
Egg (one)	6.0	6	0.0	75
Brazil nuts	5.0	20	2.0	210
Orange or grapefruit (one)	0.0	0	10.0	40
Vegetables, 5% and 10% groups	0.5	0	1 or 2	6 or 10
Oysters	6.0	1	4.0	50

TABLE[146]

Carbohydrate equivalent of 1 slice of white bread (1 oz. or 30 gm.) containing approximately 15 gm. of starch

Uncooked Flours, etc.	Household Measure[147]	Gm.	Cooked Vegetables	Household Measure	Gm.
Barley	1 h. tbs.	21	Artichokes	1 medium	320
Buckwheat	1 h. tbs.	19	Beans (baked canned)	2 h. tbs.	75
Corn meal	1 h. tbs.	20	Beans, lima	1¼ tbs.	50
Farina	1 h. tbs.	20	Beets	6 tbs.	200
Hominy	1 h. tbs.	18	Carrots	13 tbs.	446
Macaroni	1 h. tbs.	20	Okra	4 tbs.	200
Noodles	1½ h. tbs.	20	Onions	3 tbs.	300
Oatmeal	1 h. tbs.	22	Parsnips	4 slices	120
Rice	1 h. tbs.	18	Peas, green	3 h. tbs.	100
Rye flour	1 h. tbs.	18	Potatoes (baked)	½ medium	60
Spaghetti	1½ tbs.	20	Potatoes (boiled)	½ medium	70
Vermicelli	1½ tbs.	21	Potatoes (mashed)	1½ h. tbs.	80
Wheat flour	1 tbs.	20	Potatoes, sweet (boiled)	⅓ medium	35
			Squash	2 h. tbs.	100
Bread and Crackers			Turnips	3	210
Bread	1 slice	30	Cooked Cereal
Breakfast biscuit,			Force	5 h. tbs.	18
Huntley and Palmer	3	18	Farina	2½ h. tbs.	125
Corn bread	1 slice	32	Grape-Nuts	1½ h. tbs.	20
Roll, Vienna	3	18	Hominy	1½ h. tbs.	90
Zwieback	1⅓	20	Macaroni	2 h. tbs.	100
			Oatmeal	2½ h. tbs.	130
			Rice	½ h. tbs.	60
Fruits			Shredded wheat biscuit	¾	22
Apple	1 medium	120	Dried Fruit
Apricots	2 large	120	Apples	3 small	22
Banana (without skin)	½ medium	75	Apricots	3 large	24
Cherries		90	Currants	1½ h. tbs.	20
Currants	5 h. tbs.	120	Dates	3	19
Grapefruit	½ small	150	Figs	1 large	12
Huckleberries	3½ tbs.	90	Prunes	2 large	24
Lemons	2 medium	210	Raisins	10 large	23
Muskmelon	⅓	300	Milk and Cream		C.C.
Nectarine	1	100	Buttermilk	1½ tumbler	300
Olives (green)	20	180	Cream, 16%	1½ tumbler	300
Orange	½ large	150	Cream, 40%	1½ tumbler	300
Peaches	1½ medium	150	Koumiss	1½ tumbler	300
Pear	1 small	100	Whole milk	1½ tumbler	300
Pineapple	3 slices	150
Plums	3 medium	75	Nuts		Grams
Raspberries	4½ h. tbs.	120	Almonds	60	90
Strawberries	8 h. tbs.	200	Brazil	30	180
Watermelon	large slice	300	Chestnuts (roasted)	15	40
			Cocoanut	1 slice (3 × 2 in.)	50
			Filberts	100	110
			Peanuts	40	80
			Pecans	35	110
			Pistachios	190	95
			Walnuts	30	125