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...adult and more for a child; a serving of meat . . . one egg or some suitable substitute such as navy beans; two vegetables, one of which should be green or yellow; two fruits, one of which should be rich in vitamin C, found abundantly in citrus fruits and tomatoes; breads, flour and cereal, most or preferably all whole grain or enriched; some butter or oleomargarine with vitamin A added; other foods to satisfy the appetite." With such a diet, added vitamins are not necessary, except vitamin D (in cod-liver oil) for babies and for older children and adults during winter...
Most of the big flour mills and bakers have recently agreed to put vitamin B1; nicotinic acid and iron back into their flour and bread. But experts last week pointed out that such "enriched bread," although a step forward, was not the ideal solution of the problem...
Reasons: 1) sufficient productive capacity for riboflavin, which may be a required ingredient of the new flour, will not be ready for almost a year; 2) enriched flour is not as rich in minerals and vitamins as whole grain; 3) to keep up his vitamin BI requirement from this source alone, a person would have to eat almost a whole loaf of enriched bread every day (of the non-enriched white bread, he would have to eat three to four loaves); 4) the amount of vitamins available to put into bread may just now be seriously curtailed by shipments...
...Conference closed, Britain's Food Minister, Lord Woolton, urged U.S. citizens to "do without" some of their milk, cream, cheese, sugar, canned salmon and meat, send them to Britain to relieve "an unhappy and dull diet." Next day, the first shipload of U.S. Lend-Lease food - eggs, cheese, flour - arrived safely in England...
...Desensitizing" injections seldom work. Those who cannot stomach most ordinary foods should experiment with exotic dishes such as wild rice, zucchini, kumquats, papayas, chestnut flour, bamboo shoots, reindeer meat...