Word: vitaminous
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...Ages, when young & old drank quantities of yeasty beer daily, it was almost a staple of the European diet. The U.S. people eat 200,000,000 lb. of yeast a year, most of it in bread. Fleischmann has developed two varieties now widely used in breakfast foods and as vitamin pills...
...disease caused by vitamin deficiency, commonly resulting from a diet of polished rice...
When a small Los Angeles firm, Vitamin Technologists, Inc., began to irradiate in defiance of Wisconsin's patents, the Foundation sued. The Circuit Court pointed out that the patents were so sweeping that a farmer who let his alfalfa lie under the sun's ultraviolet rays would be an "infringer." The Court ruled that Dr. Steenbock's finding, though it put the world greatly in his debt, was a "discovery," not a patentable invention. The Foundation will appeal to the Supreme Court...
...strains of cabbage that have up to twice as much vitamin C as the old varieties have been developed at the Department of Agriculture's regional laboratory in Charleston. S.C., but seed is not likely to be available to gardeners for several years...
...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...