Word: casein
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...sell his waste products in bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy mycelia develop. Dr. H. T. Herrick of the U. S. Department of Agriculture explained the disciplining of these molds to the service of man. Since Biblical days...
...Seashore Home for Babies. Gelatin was added to the milk for one group of babies; another group received the same diet minus the gelatin. The gelatinized fed infants gained more, vomited less, regurgitated rarely. Gelatin makes cows' milk more digestible by breaking up the tough, difficultly digested casein allowing the digestive juices to get at the smaller particles; at the same time its spreading sticky quality keeps food down which in liquid form would be immediately rejected by a sensitive irritable stomach. Some idiosyncratic infants, however, may not take kindly to gelatin...
...young rats Dr. Evans, head of the University of California's department of anatomy, fed all five vitamins with nourishing, highly purified casein and recrystallized cane sugar. The rats remained half grown and sexually immature. Previous experiments had shown that rats given food that contained the five vitamins thrived normally. Clearly, Dr. Evans' diet lacked some element present but not recognized in the foods of foregoing vitamin experiments...