| Show ENRICHED BREAD Enrichment of White Bread With Vitamin B Started 10 Years Ago Enriched whito bread in the past ten years has resulted In the virtual wiping out of two deficiency diseases and has contributed materially to better health and Increased vigor to the American according to statements from outstanding authorities in medical and nutritional Bakers all over America this year are celebrating the decennial bread It was In when the enrichment program got under way on a national White bread is simply the raising in bread of the content of the B vitamins thiamin and riboflavin and Those elements are produced in volume in the process of milling wheat into The two diseases which result from a lack of the B vitamins are called beriberi heart disease and While the average person probably is not familiar with either of they were not at all uncommon in the United States prior to The B vitamins perform an important function in the They make it possible to eat an ample quantity of food but still suffer from malnutrition if B vitamins were not present In sufficient quantity to make the carbohydrates and other food properties adequately absorbed into the It was indications of this lack of proper nourishment which was causing considerable concern among doctors and nutritionists in the The state of the nation's health was definitely not good and the fact was pointed up sharply when the draft started in 1940 and Thousands of young men were rejected for military service and Families such as the one pictured above enjoy better health leading scientists because the bread they consume has been enriched with vitamins and the cause for some of the rejections could be traced to The discovery of how to make B vitamins by chemical combinations in 1936 made it possible to provide the people with the The method of getting the vitamins to the mass of the people was another Consultation between government health authorities and scientists brought about an approach to the flour millers and These meetings culminated In agreement that bread was the natural place for the vitamins and the program was launched in The B vitamins belonged in since they were present in the original whole Bread is a universal appearing most frequently in most And bread is one of the least expensive of These facts added up to the obvious conclusion that the best place to provide B vitamins was in Enriched bread thus came into TO THE AVERAGE enrichment has meant general betterment of physical well the scientists Studies among children In test that youngsters who received B vitamins were more more less while those whose diets did not include B vitamins were inclined to cry more readily and showed little inclination for Changing living habits were major factors in making the enrichment program Around 95 per cent of all the bread consumed In America was made in the 95 per cent is made by Flour 50 years ago was not as fully refined as it is today and more of the nutritional elements of wheat were obtained in the daily Better transportation and better methods of shipping and handling food brought a greater variety to daily Each American used to eat more than pounds of cereal products each Recently the average has been about the consumer Insists on a white and light loaf of bread which means less of the B vitamins are present in the product reaching the consumer Health authorities who were more and more alarmed by the declining state of national health in the s made strenuous efforts to promote greater use of whole wheat but with no noticeable The consumer still wanted white a huge percentage of all white bread made by American bakers is |
