Word: riboflavin
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...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...
...change with age, in contrast to the known alteration of the chemical content of the tissues, especially the arteries." One way to forestall aging, some chemists suspect, is a judicious diet. Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia found that when rats were given increased amounts of either calcium or riboflavin (vitamin 62) or vitamin A, senility was deferred and they lived longer...
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...
...Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): for blindness caused by inflammation of the cornea, certain skin disorders...
...award in Chemistry (deferred from last year) went to Professor Richard Kuhn of Berlin, who isolated Vitamin B 2 (also called lactoflavin or riboflavin). The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich. Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool...