WHOLEMEAL BREAD

Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 4

WHOLEMEAL BREAD

EXPERIMENT WITH RATS PROVED BETTER- TUAN WHITE.- ' Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 15. For the purpose of proving the contention that wholemeal bread is better than white, the ‘Daily Mail’ invited Drs Rowlands and Ethel Browning to experiment with twenty rats, half of which were fed on wholeineal bread and half on white bread, varied with casein, cod liver oil, dried blood, and fish meal. Dr Browning undertook the feeding, and did not allow the hoppers to be emptied. Those supplied with white bread always finished wanting more, and they consumed 1990 z in thirty-font days. Those given wholemeal bread never finished the supplies, and consumed 720 z. Tbo latter at the opening of the experiment weighed 840 grammes, and at the close I BIG. 9he others weighed 952 and 1,176 respectively. Those fed on wholemeal bread were sleek and healthy, but one fed on white bread died, and tho remainder were listless, losing their hair and ■apparently dying. As a further experiment, tho rats were fed with a deficiency diet, which showed that when thev were sinking they roftlsed white bread, but ate the wholemeal bread avidly.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.