THE COAL FOODS Kinds of Coal Foods.

There are many different kinds of Coal foods, such as pork, mutton, beef, bread, corn-cakes, bacon, potatoes, rice, sugar, cheese, butter, and so on.

But when you come to look at them more closely, and to take them to pieces, or, as we say, analyze them, you will see that they all fall into three different kinds or classes: (1) _Proteins_, such as meat, milk, fish, eggs, cheese, etc.

(2) _Starch-sugars_ (_carbohydrates_), found pure as laundry starch and as white sugar; also found, as starch, making up the bulk of wheat and other grains, and of potatoes, rice, peas; also found, as sugar, in honey, beet-roots, sugar cane, and the sap of maple trees.

(3) _Fats_, found in fat meats, butter, oil, nuts, beeswax, etc.
This whole class of Coal foods can be recognized by the fact that usually some one of them will form the staple, or main dish, of almost any regular meal, which is generally a combination of all three classes--a protein in the shape of meat; a starch-sugar in the form of bread, potatoes, or rice; and a fat in the form of butter in northern climates, or of olive oil in the tropics.
PROTEINS, OR "MEATS" Proteins, the "First Foods." There are proteins, or "meats," both animal and vegetable; and no one can support life without protein in some form.