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CORN PRODUCTS ENRICHMENT
Pages 7-8

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... Obviously, improvement of the major product consumed is of greater importance to public health. A study involving protein and vitamin utilization when various types of bread made from whole wheat, 70 per cent white flour, 85 per cent meal, and 70 per cent white flour enriched were employed was recently reported by Widdowson and McCance24.
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... The results showed that the percentages of corn meal sold which was enriched were: Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Per Cent 95 31 87 60 64 78 North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Per Cent 74 100 81 97 26 55 A report was not obtained from Arkansas; otherwise the entire South where corn is an important human food was covered. Obviously the intensiveriess of the survey varied from state to state and the figures are probably not strictly comparable with one another.
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