Word: riboflavin
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...milk stand in the sun. This advice was earnestly tendered recently by chemists of North Carolina State College. Their findings: bottled milk in the sun loses 40% of its vitamin 62 (riboflavin) in an hour, 72% in three hours. In the refrigerator or even in a dark room at room temperatures it loses none at all. Milk is the chief source of riboflavin in the U.S. diet...
...Riboflavin (formerly vitamin B 2 ) is widely used in the poultry industry to stimulate egg production, is also used as a preventive of some eye inflammations and fissures of the lips. It is recommended for the enrichment of bread, but the supply is small because of the shortage of equipment in wartime. Within the past year its price has dropped from 75? to 58? a gram...
Moreover, modern bread is baked with plenty of milk or milk powder. This supplies calcium (for the bones and teeth) and the vitamin called riboflavin, which is also a powerful disease preventive. Only when made with the whole meal and milk can bread be called adequate...
...they have had a huge quantity of the substance. After that, injections are given three times a week for a fortnight, then once or twice a week for several months. In addition, patients are given large amounts of capsules and syrup containing the other B vitamins (nicotinic acid and riboflavin), as well as vitamins...
...some strange reason, reported Professor Paul Gyorgy of Western Reserve, rats who get no riboflavin (vitamin B2) invariably become lousy. This condition never occurs with other vitamin deficiencies, so it is not related to general physical weakness. Doses of riboflavin quickly drive the lice away. Dr. Gyorgy hopes the treatment will soon be tried on human beings, for lice carry the germs of typhus. >Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell told how three groups of men in three separate laboratories recently turned up one of the original vitamin substances, biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed...