Word: b2
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample items: B2 tablets came down from $3.25 to $1.39 per 100; B1 tablets were cut from...
Cottonseed. The residue of cottonseed-oil making can now be processed to make it palatable, is exceptionally rich in protein and vitamin B2...
...many distilling pals. Main points of the report: 1) by re-using containers (now restricted by law) the industry could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle. 3) If needed, the industry could switch 75,000,000 of its 435,000,000-gallon capacity to industrial alcohol...
...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...
...some strange reason, reported Professor Paul Gyorgy of Western Reserve, rats who get no riboflavin (vitamin B2) invariably become lousy. This condition never occurs with other vitamin deficiencies, so it is not related to general physical weakness. Doses of riboflavin quickly drive the lice away. Dr. Gyorgy hopes the treatment will soon be tried on human beings, for lice carry the germs of typhus. >Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell told how three groups of men in three separate laboratories recently turned up one of the original vitamin substances, biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed...