Battle Creek Sanitarium Cafeteria

Items

• Social Purity: an address delivered at Battle Creek, Mich. ...

  This is a pamphlet containing an address entitled "Social Purity" given by John H. Kellogg on November 28, 1886. The pamphlet was published by Health Publishing Co. of Battle Creek, MI. In outlining what he believes to be the "active agents in leading the young to lives of impurity", Kellogg first identifies "The [Effect] of a Bad Diet" (page 7). He writes that spices, sweets, condiments, rich sauces, tea, and coffee—all of these corrupting foodstuffs, combined with overeating and hasty eating, "contribute to the establishment of morbid conditions which encourage impurity" (page 8).
• The Sanitarium Cooking School

  An excerpt from an illustrated pamphlet advertising the services and amenities available at The Battle Creek Sanitarium.
• The Sanitarium Dietary

  An excerpt from an illustrated pamphlet advertising the services and amenities available at The Battle Creek Sanitarium, including the Sanitarium's dietary plans.
• NoKo: How to Quit the Coffee Habit

  This is an advertisement for NoKo, a coffee substitute produced by the Battle Creek Cereal Coffee Co. and served to patients and dinner guests at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. It purportedly offered the same appearance, taste, and smell of coffee without causing headaches, sleeplessness, and indigestion. The advertisement describes that NoKo was made from "a mixture of grains." One container of NoKo cost 25 cents. This advertisement appeared in the October 1, 1907 issue of Good Health, a health journal edited by J. H. Kellogg and published by Good Health Publishing Co. of Battle Creek, MI.
• Michigan State Horticultural Society dinner, c. 1907

  This postcard contains a photograph of the annex dining room of the Battle Creek Sanitarium with a menu of the 1907 Michigan State Horticultural Society banquet printed below. The banquet was held at the sanitarium on December 4, 1907. Battle Creek Food Co. products served at the dinner include roast protose and NoKo. Protose was a meat substitute made from wheat gluten and peanuts. NoKo was a coffee substitute that purportedly avoided side effects of caffeine such as headaches, sleeplessness, and indigestion.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Cooking School

  Color postcard of women in the Battle Creek Sanitarium kitchen participating in the Cooking School.
• Healthful Living: An Account of The Battle Creek Diet System

  Book published by the Kellogg Food Company promoting a vegetarian lifestyle. Discusses the effects of a plant-based diet versus a meat-inclusive one, as well as other food-related health concerns. Includes a catalog of food products sold by Kellogg, sample menus, and color illustrations of tablescapes containing meals cooked with Kellogg Food Company products.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Nut Foods

  This advertisement, printed in the January 30, 1898 issue of the Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Mont.), displays a variety of Battle Creek Food Co.'s nut foods (including Bromose, Maltol, Nut Butter, and Nuttose) being sold at the Newbro Drug Co. in Butte, Mont. John H. Kellogg created Nuttose in 1896. It was a vegetarian meat alternative containing peanut meal, soy, corn, and rice flour. Three years later, Kellogg developed Protose, another grain- and nut-based meat alternative.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Kitchen

  Black and white photograph of food being prepared in the kitchen of the Battle Creek Sanitarium
• Sanitarium Bill of Fare

  Typed document of a singular day's Battle Creek Sanitarium dinner menu.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Biologic Regimen

  A photograph of a sample biologic regimen for a guest at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
• Protose Trademark Registration

  Trademark Registration of Protose brand Nut and Cereal Foods by the Sanitas Nut Food Company.
• Dining Room at Battle Creek Sanitarium

  Black and White photograph of a bustling dining room at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
• Food-Ferrin advertisement

  Food Ferrin was an iron supplement produced by Battle Creek Food Co. It contained iron extracted from a mixture of iron-rich greens, and purportedly contained as much iron as one pound of spinach.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Dining Room

  An image of the dining room where residents of the Battle Creek Sanitarium ate.
• Battle Creek Lacto Dextrin

  Lacto Dextrin was a powdered probiotic product made from soluble starch and lemon powder produced by the Battle Creek Food Co. The company marketed the product as a means to promote the growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus and B. Bifidum, two probiotic bacteria found in the human body.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Savita

  Savita was a savory seasoning made of yeast and vegetable extracts produced by the Battle Creek Food Co. Similar to nutritional yeast, it was marketed to aid in digestion. A fully vegetarian supplement, it was in line with the pro-vegetarian stance of J. H. Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
• Battle Creek Sanitarium Laboratory

  Pictured is a laboratory in which the vitamins and supplements such as meat alternative, Savita, and the iron supplement, Food Ferrin, were formulated and tested.
• Foods and Food Values: With Suggestions How to Reduce the Cost of Living.
• The Itinerary of a Breakfast: A Popular Account of the Travels of a Breakfast through the Food Tube and the Ten Gates and Several Stations through Which It Passes, also of the Obstacles Which It Sometimes Meets

  These excerpts are pulled from a 244-page published printed text by Battle Creek Sanitarium owner John Harvey Kellogg. Organized by checkpoints in the human digestive system, this text details the operations and perceived sensitivities of the human digestive system. It also calls for readers to prioritize digestive health to achieve longevity and improved quality of life.
• A Few Foods Served to the Nutrition Class

  This handwritten document lists a selection of foods served to children in the Nutrition Class of the 1926 Sunshine Playground program, as well as a list of topics of discussion at the program's weekly "Healthyful Living" health talks. The menu contains some of Battle Creek Sanitarium's proprietary food products, including Protose meat substitute, Zo cereal, Ferrin iron supplement, and Fig Bran cereal. Sunshine playgrounds were summer nutrition programs for children held at Battle Creek Sanitarium that aimed to increase sun exposure as a preventative for tuberculosis. Children were medically monitored and examined, fed a curated menu of health foods, and given ample time for outside play.