Battle Creek Sanitarium Cafeteria

Items

• 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.
• 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.