= 50 "
1 average helping of cooked green vegetables
such as spinach, cabbage,
cauliflower, asparagus, etc. (2 tablespoons)[8] = 100 "
1 average helping boiled cereal = 100 "
1 potato, size of large egg = 100 "

[8] It is not true that all the vegetables weigh the same,
but for the sake of simplicity in most of the diets it has been
reckoned that two heaping tablespoons of any one of the "5%"
vegetables weighs 100 gms.

The following food values are taken from Locke's Abstract of Atwater
and Bryant's Bulletin No. 28, 1906, United States Department of
Agriculture.

Fractions of per cents. have been left off in order to make the use of
the table more simple, and the values given will be found quite
accurate enough for clinical purposes.

Food Stuffs. Quantity. Protein. Fat. Carbohydrate. Total
Raw. Grams. Grams. Grams. Calories.

MEAT.

Beef 100 gms. 22 28 350
Chicken " " 32 4 168
Bacon (raw) " " 10 64 636

FISH.

Fish (average) " " 20 7 147
Oysters " " 6 1 3 46

EGGS.

Eggs " " 13 12 165
Eggs 1 egg 7 6 84

DAIRY PRODUCTS.

Butter 100 gms. 1 85 795
Cheese (American) " " 28 35 2 448
Cheese (Neufchatel) " " 19 27 2 337
Milk (whole) " " 3 4 5 70
Milk (whole) 1 qt. 30 36 45 642
Milk (skim) 100 gms. 3 0.3 5 35
Milk (skim) 1 qt. 31 3 46 343
Cream (gravity) 100 gms. 3 16 5 181
Cream (gravity) 1 pt. 12 73 23 822

CEREAL PRODUCTS.

Oatmeal (cooked) 100 gms. 3 0.5 12 66
Rice (cooked) " " 3 0.1 24 112
Macaroni (cooked) "