ROSE HIPS OR ORANGES
NINE BRITISH FACTORIES TURN 200 TONS OF THEM INTO SYRUP Two hundred tons of rose hips gathered from the hedges of England and Scotland last autumn have been turned into syrup for the older children in Britain who cannot gel a regular supply of oranges. Like the oranges, rose hips are a rich source of vitamin 'C,' the antiscurvy vitamin. Before the war it never occurred to anybody to use rose hips, but when the supply of oranges dwindled a small army of Bay Scouts, Girl Guides, teachers and Women's Institute members turned out into the lanes with their baskets. Even housewives who were expert jam makers found it difficult to keep the hip hairs out of the syrup and the hips were therefore sent off to nine factories which have now produced I'rcm them 600,000 bottles of syrup. Young children are sipping it with relish at the rate of one teaspoonful a day. Two teaspoonluls in the twenty-hour hours give all the vitamin C which older boys and girls require. Britains' Ministry of Health are so pleased with the result that they are hoping for a much bigger collection of rose hips when autumn comes round again.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 38, 10 April 1942, Page 2
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202ROSE HIPS OR ORANGES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 38, 10 April 1942, Page 2
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