Word: niacin
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...test the researchers picked Bataan, across Manila Bay from Williams' old laboratory. They drew a line down the peninsula. East of the line, all the rice to be eaten was milled the ordinary way, then mixed (200 parts to one) with rice which had been coated with Bi, niacin and iron. West of the line, the Filipinos ate plain white rice...
...lack of other B-complex vitamins causes other deficiency diseases, e.g., pellagra results chiefly from a niacin shortage...
...Niacin (formerly nicotinic acid) is the chief constituent of the B-complex and prevents pellagra. It is now the cheapest of the synthetics-$5 a pound...
Modern bread differs in two important ways from the old white bread. Improved milling makes possible the inclusion of the wheat germ in the flour. This provides iron and two essential vitamins: thiamin (for a healthy nervous system) and niacin (to prevent pellagra). Such flour need not be "whole wheat," which includes the harsh outer coating of the kernel. Professor Sherman recommends the "longer-extraction" or "wholemeal" flour which discards the coating, but utilizes about 85% of the wheat kernel. It is the basis of the British "national loaf...