A MIXTURE FOR MILLIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 5

A MIXTURE FOR MILLIONS

Tlie discovery of a synthetic meal is reported by the "Time maga zinc. This will probably help to feed millions in Europe as soon as this new food can be produced on a big scale. In St. Louis molasses, water, air and yea&t were being mixed in a vast vat. Every twelve hours this mixture produced a ton of good rich meat—nearly as succulent as the sirloin steak it takes two years to rai?e on the hoof, much cheaper, and much richer in proteins and vitamins. Furthermore this new synthetic meat is so easy to make that its inventors already look forwart o performing a modern miracl# of the loaves and fishes after the war amon ß the foodless. people of the world. The new food is actually a new kind of yeast, with added that make it almost mdi.stm-.uishab from natural foods. Its makers- have demonstrated its serving meals including two delic - ous kinds of soup—meat loaf, muffins cheese sticks, even pie-all made of varieties of yeast. Since yeast is the richest known source oi B vitamins and contains about oO per cent protein (twice as much as meat) it surpasses meat as sheei food. 'And pound for pound of. proi tein, yeast costs only a fifth as much las meat.