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...cancer was particularly interesting because one of the hottest theories in cancer research is the possible effect of raw egg white on the cancers. Egg white's avidin links up with biotin, part of the vitamin B complex essential for growth of both normal and cancerous tissues. Theory is that large amounts of avidin might "freeze" enough blood biotin to starve a cancer, possibly stop its growth...
...last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
Synthetic Snacks. British scientists have evolved a synthetic, laboratory-made food called turula utilis ("useful cells"). Said Britain's Department of Scientific & Industrial Research last fortnight: "Our process makes it possible to manufacture B vitamins and high-grade protein in hours rather than the months it would take to produce meat." Turula is a yeast, not of the baking or brewing varieties, grown by germ culture methods in sugar or molasses. It may be served as a soup, powder, flake or paste, may be sprinkled on porridge, spread on bread, mixed with other foods. Its flavor is cautiously described...
...Juice. Dehydrated like blood plasma (which is frozen, dried under vacuum), a new powdered orange juice preserves both the orange flavor and the valuable vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Reported one sampler of the powdered juice mixed with water: "The color is the same, the texture is the same as strained orange juice-even to the tiny particles clinging to the side of the glass." Developed by California Food Research Institute, the process is approaching the commercial stage...
Please note that we evacuees have been suffering shortages since last May. We mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...