Otto Carque
Otto Heinrich Carque (11 July 1867 – 9 January 1935) was a French–American businessman, fruit grower, naturopath, raw foodist, vegetarian and writer. He was the first to use the term natural food. Biography Carque was born on 11 July 1855 in Wiesloch. He lived in Mannheim, Germany and migrated to America as a young man. Carque arrived in New York City in 1887 and became an associate of Henry Edward Lane, a practitioner of iridology. He became a vegetarian before he was 28 and promoted the benefits of a vegetarian diet, exercise, fresh air and nude sunbathing. Carque has been credited as the first person to use the term "natural food" to refer to food that has not been adulterated or refined. It was reported in 1895 that Carque had "lived 15 years on raw foods, then fresh fruits and vegetables, varied occasionally with eggs, cheese and nut butters, unroasted." In 1912, Carque established the "Carque Pure Food Company". He sold mission figs at a Los Angeles grocery store. From 1922, he wrote advertisements in the Los Angeles Times for his own natural food products consisting mostly of dried fruits and nuts known as "Natural Foods of California". Carque's Pure