VITAMINS IN BREAD
RESEARCHES IN BRITAIN. The British Food Minister, having recently appointed a Flour (Vitaminisation) Advisory Committee, has now announced the names of six eminent officials to act as the committee s advisers. writes Mr Rupert de la Bere. M.P.. to the “Daily Telegraph." The problem to which this "Grain Brains Trust" will address itself is that of reinserting in white flour a chemicallycreated vitamin to replace the natural vitamin removed in the process of making the flour white. W. S. Gilbert never devised a situation half so Gilbertian. The Food Minister accepted his experts’ view that while bread was sadly deficient; but rather than enforce the sale of whole-wheat he decided to "revitaminise" white flour. This vitamin is only one of many essential nutrients taken out of the wheat berry in oder to produce a white loaf. It is not enough for the Food Minister to say that wholemeal bread is available to the public. He has laid down no standard for wholemeal, which may be a very much inferior product to the whole-wheat bread which his experts recommended. If our food is controlled and subsidised, dietetic values should be paramount. ...
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 9
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193VITAMINS IN BREAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 9
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