Table of contents
When it comes to the crunch…
David Rawleyou may be surprised to know how much research and development was needed to give a specially pleasing crispness to a new crumb coating for a range of convenience products such as…
NEAR INFRA RED ANALYSIS
A.M.C. DaviesThe existence of infrared energy was discovered by Herschel in 1800 but it was sometime before it was realised that there was a continuous spectrum of electromagnetic energy as…
WASTE NOT WANT NOT
C.R.W. SpeddingNovel biological production processes can be utilised to convert waste materials, such as cellulose, crop residues and animal excreta, to products which can be sold or used within…
zinc
Frank W. HogarthThe first suspected case of zinc deficiency in man was reported from Iran and it was a knowledge of animal deficiency symptoms which first led to speculation that zinc deficiency…
Iron and vitamin A
Undernourished people of the world are rarely short of just one mineral and vitamin. They are usually short of several essential nutrients, and because of the inter‐dependence…
The B Vitamins: Pyridoxine and Pantothenic acid
Ivan SharmanPyridoxine (Vitamin B6). This vitamin has been shown to be an essential growth factor for all experimental and domestic animals so far investigated. It is also known to be…
Health foods survey
Cereals, brans, wholemeal flour and other ‘natural’ cereals and grains lead in popularity when it comes to the question of ‘health food’ consumption. 53% of the population sample…
GINGER: The fieriest of foods
David GunstonGinger beer, ginger ale and ginger wine, ginger biscuits and gingerbread, ginger marmalade and ginger flavouring of a dozen kinds, to say nothing of metaphorical ginger used (or…
Happy eating
Elisabeth MorseThe foundations for future health — and ill‐health — are believed to be laid down in childhood. Because of this teachers are constantly being exhorted by health professionals to…
WHAT ARE CHILDREN EATING THESE DAYS?
With increasing unemployment, changes in family way of life and radical changes in school catering services, there has been some concern that Britain's schoolchildren were…
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