Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gill fish and white vegetables were the only consolation afforded five anonymous Harvard students for proving that vitamin A was not essential in the emergency rations of an American soldier...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
...deficiency in vitamin A was partly compensated for by doses containing the other minerals essential to good health so that no detrimental effects on the "guinea pigs" could be detected...
...Because U.S. chickens consume more vitamin D than the U.S. citizenry, Du Pont has developed a synthetic product to replace the cod-liver oil formerly imported and fed to poultry. Made from sterols (solid alcohols) extracted from animal fats and irradiated with ultraviolet light, it is conveniently dry rather than gooey, like fish oils. Poultrymen last year spent thousands of dollars for vitamin D products to insure strong-shelled eggs, high hatching rates, low mortality...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...