IRON RATION
FOR BRITAIN’S CIVILIAN POPULATION. THOUSANDS OF TONS STORED. Britain’s civilian population has been provided with an iron ration for the first time ,in history. Thousands of tons of it have been stored in depots from one end of the country to the other. The ration is a dry wheaten biscuit scientifically balanced, and it has been produced against the possibility of an invasion holding up the normal baking of bread. Bread stales rapidly because of its high moisture content. The iron ration biscuit has only 3J per cent of moisture and it keeps indefinitely. Its actual ingredients are wholewheat, fat and sugar. Its vitamin content is unimpared by baking. The wholewheat gives the biscuit vitamin Bl and it contains proteins, fat, carbohydrates, mineral matter and fibre for an emergency diet. It compares well with bread calorifically, having 405 calories per hundred grammes against bread’s 254. . The iron ration is also being issued to the Civil Defence forces, to Air Raid Precaution and Auxiliary Fire Service personnel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 6
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168IRON RATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 6
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