Word: paprika
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...contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
...Olympians include Albert de Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian Nobel Prizewinner who found vitamin C in paprika; Wendell Meredith Stanley of Rockefeller Institute, who succeeded in crystallizing a virus; Frits Went of California Institute of Technology, No. 1 U. S. researcher on plant hormones. There is just one mildly disturbing thing about the assembly. One of the most distinguished of the 16*-one whose solid scientific achievements are no greater than those of some others but who stands out because he is a notable leader of science, teacher of science, preacher of science, historian of science, analyst of science...
...years Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. Albert Szent-Györgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...
While the world of scholars waited, the Nobel Prize committee took a quick last look at the accomplishments of Albert Szent-Györgyi. Amiable son of a once wealthy Hungarian, son-in-law of a one-time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with...
...enough to permit all the experiments he wanted to do on the acid's medical effects, and in despair Dr. Szent-Györgyi went back to his native Hungary where one day, instead of eating a dish which Mrs. Szent-Györgyi had heavily spiced with paprika, he made a chemical analysis of that sweet pepper. In his own backyard this far-traveling researcher found that paprika was the best source of Vitamin C on earth...