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Show New Food In India, new food product has been discovered discov-ered on the west side of India, which has already been approved by tho government gov-ernment authorities, and it is now proposed pro-posed to gather the seed In largo quantities quan-tities and hold it for use whenever famine conditions are fully doveloped. It Is in the form of a seed which has been named "befrl" and is claimed by the chief medical officer of Baroda Btato to contain 21.13 per cent, of albuminoids, al-buminoids, whereas the proportion In Indian wheat Is but 13.5 per cent, and in oatmeal only 16. In other words "befrl" is 03 per cent, moro nutritious than wheat and 28 more so than oatmeal. |