Down the years: Dried fruit comes with a catchy new song

100 years ago DRIED FRUIT: It is understood that dried fruits have an astonishingly high food value and are good for children. A scientist has drawn up a table showing that one pound of raisins is equal to 1¹⁄³ pound of beef, six apples, five bananas, 4¼ of potatoes, four of milk, 4¾ of fish […]

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