The Postum Cereal Company

“ The diastase is thus produced, and the transformation of starch into sugar (or maltose) accomplished, without employing any elements other than those found in the wheat and barley, making a perfect food for those with weak digestion, and who cannot digest the carbohydrates as presented in soft, mushy foods.
Thousands of invalids remain so, not knowing the cause of their disease. It is safe to say that one person in every three, among coffee users, has some form of incipient or advanced disease. ”

“ A car-load of grain placed on the Company's siding is in a few minutes elevated into steel storage tanks and elevators having a capacity of 135,000 bushels. As it is needed, the grain is carried by an endless belt conveyor through a runway nearly 450 feet long and about 50 feet in the air, to the milling rooms, at the rate of 2,000 bushels an hour. From this point the wheat and barley pass through successive stages, and 48 hours later, as Grape-Nuts and Postum, they leave the factory, boxed and crated and ready for the table. ”

“ A delicious breakfast dish is made by placing one or two teaspoons of Grape-Nuts breakfast food in the cup of Postum. A new flavor is added, and the combination furnishes the most powerful food elements known. Remember, you can recover from any ordinary disease by discontinuing coffee and poor food, and using Postum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts, for these forms of nourishment are scientifically made, and produce the results they were made to produce in the human body. Both Postum and Grape-Nuts contain minute and delicate
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“ There are people, however, who hold their health in high enough esteem to be willing to give a little attention to food and drink. Such people realize that good health can be turned into success, into money making, prosperity, and the ability to do things in this world. There is no habit the creature acquires which produces as much real enjoyment as the old-fashioned habit of being thoroughly well.
Grape-Nuts Grinding Room. ”

“ The Canadian Government in 1902 made a test of various foods, in which Grape-Nuts was shown to have over sixteen times the amount of digestible food as the least one tested, and about two-thirds more than the next best food made, and nearly double the energy-producing power of any other food known. ”

“ Although the cereals which compose Postum and Grape-Nuts are handled by heavy, modern, labor-saving machinery, nearly 600 people, all told, are employed. The factories run day and night. The capacity of the plant as it now stands is between six and seven million packages every month. That means food and drink for a great many people. ”

“ Many persons linger half ill, because they do not know that the food causes it, when the conditions show that the intestinal digestion is weak. Such patients need food that can be digested without drugs, and that food is Grape-Nuts. ”

“ Now let us see how Grape-Nuts food is pre-digested, absolutely without chemicals or any outside ingredients.
First, the Barley is soaked about 100 hours. Then it goes to a warm floor, and the moisture and warmth develop the Diastase, sprout the berries of barley and turn the starchy inside into sugar. You see how exactly like the processes going on in the human body, to produce the same result. Then this barley (after the sprouts are removed) is ground, and the flour ”

“ The unusual number of people affected by coffee drinking attracted attention, and in collaboration with an analytical chemist he conducted a series of experiments looking towards a healthful coffee to be made of nourishing grains, that would have a good snappy flavor and, satisfying the user’s palate, would feed and rebuild the nerve centres broken down by coffee or other stimulants and narcotics. ”

“ For instance, it is well known that the soft gray organic substance which fills the brain and the nerve centres throughout the body, is made of Albumen, Water and Phosphate of Potash. Brain work or “nervous work” or worry breaks down and dissipates this gray substance, and it must be daily supplied in equal volume with the amount destroyed, else nervous prostration, with its numerous ramifications and horrors, surely follows. ”

“ This machine cuts the Grape-Nuts loaves into slices and deposits them in wire trays, ready to go to the dry kilns.
These facts should never be forgotten. Coffee and tea are not foods, but strong, powerful drugs. Sooner or later the steady drugging will tear down the strong man or woman, and the stomach, bowels, heart, kidneys, nerves, brain, or some other organ connected with the nervous system, will be attacked. ”

“ This food furnishes the user, then, with the needed starch part of food, naturally pre-digested; therefore, any one with weak intestinal digestion, liver and bowel troubles can correct them without drugs, by leaving off the bread, cakes, mushy cereals, potatoes, and all forms of starchy food, and using Grape-Nuts. The remedy is sure, because based on well-known physiological laws. Many a case of appendicitis might
Postum Wheat Cooling Pans. ”

“ In the last line of the analysis is shown the percentage of the food that is ready for immediate digestion.
Those who feed mainly on half-cooked or soft cereals, such as porridge, rice or other starchy foods, form the habit of swallowing them quickly without proper mastication. When the food is presented to the stomach in such condition, the interior of many granules remains untouched with the digesting juices, and becomes fermented in the intestines as a consequence.
This fermentation in the intestines often produces Bright’s disease, diabetes, rheuma-- ”

“ No chemicals whatsoever are used. But just to brown wheat and mix in some molasses will not make Postum.
First, part of the wheat is coarsely hulled, and the part sticking to the hulls contains certain things nature uses for rebuilding purposes, Potash, Lime, Iron, etc., etc., also the dormant element known as Diastase, most important in the transformation of the starch part of wheat. Now this coarse part of the wheat is moistened, subjected to slow heat, mixed with the
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“ Then we will start through the works and illustrate how Postum and Grape-Nuts are made.
mixed in certain proportion with entire wheat flour made from the choicest grade of wheat. This combined or blended flour is then made up into great loaves of dark brown colored bread, sliced by machinery, and the slices placed in secondary ovens where another long term of slow heat turns the remaining starch into sugar. Then these
Steel Wheat Tanks. ”

“ This machine tucks the flaps and seals the top of the Grape-Nuts package, and has a capacity of 3.600 packages per hour. There are four of these machines, making a total daily output of 144,000 packages.
abandon coffee. The improvement in health in ten days will be sufficiently marked, in most cases, to induce an adoption of Postum alone. If the reader has any sort of illness, try leaving off tea and coffee, and note the result.
All cereals, oatmeal, rolled wheat, etc., are likely to become webby, and under certain conditions, wormy, In warm weather,
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