Word: huzenlaub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harwell and Mars are U.S. licensees for a rice-milling process developed by German Biochemist E. G. Huzenlaub (now a naturalized British citizen), which forces the vitamins and minerals firmly into the heart of the rice. For the past year and a half, Harwell, who snapped up the Huzenlaub process after others turned it down, has been struggling to fill Army orders from his original pilot plant. Anxious to get more "converted rice," the Army got behind Mars's and Harwell's plan for a new plant. Last week Harwell hurried aboard an airliner at Washington, Houston-bound...
...Quartermaster's Office, the Huzenlaub product is important for two reasons...
...Water-soluble vitamins and minerals, which are lost to rice when the brown bran husk is removed in the usual commercial milling process, are largely retained in the Huzenlaub process...
Then one day a German biochemist named E. G. Huzenlaub (now a naturalized British citizen) marched into Harwell's Houston office with the magic for mula. Today the Harwell plant at Houston produces 1,200 barrels of Huzenlaub rice (called "converted rice") a day, all of it sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel...
Since rice is the world's No. 1 grain (in the number of people it feeds), the Huzenlaub process may well prove to be one of the most important food discoveries in years. The U.S. rice-milling industry, still loath to accept it, has denied Harwell's firm membership in the Rice Millers' Association, claims that the new process is no better than several others by which milled rice is impregnated with vitamins. But millers in 36 countries are now licensed to use the Huzenlaub process. Only country turned down so far: Japan...
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