PASS THE GRASS, PLEASE!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 72, 1 July 1942, Page 4

PASS THE GRASS, PLEASE!

EVIDENCE that plain grass is the richest source of all the vitamins that come from fruits and vegetables has been reported by a group of American scientists. They have developed a powdered grass which can be added in cooking most foods, from pancakes to desserts. It can be put in bread without changing the flavour or colour. Chemical analysis shows that grass contains all the vitamins from A, the infection protector, to E, the fertility promoter, excepting only Vitamin D, the bone hardener. Likewise fruits and vegetables do not contain D, although they supply chemicals which turn into D in the human body on exposure to sunlight. Grass has 23 times more A thari the fruits and vegetables, 8 times more 81, the nerve vitamin, 21 times more 82, the growth vitamin, arid 14 times more C, the anti-scurvy vitamin. Identified in grass also is 'the whole B-complex, including the pellagra preventer, nicctonic acid, and probably the recently found grey hair darkener vitamin. Twelve pounds of grass is said to be a little more than equal in vitamins to the 340 pounds of fruits and vegetables which dietary surveys find the average person eats in one year-