Show vitamins destroyed by cooking poultry rations cooking poultry rations destroys vitamins B and 0 and may result in illness or death of many j young chicks advises a writer in successful farming this la Is the conclusion reached by nutrition specialists at the university of wisconsin after careful tests with cooked and raw feeds A ration made up of natural feeds and red fed raw resulted to in excellent growth of the chicks but when a similar group of chicks was fed ed the tame same ration after it had been heated for hours at degrees fahrenheit it developed this indicated that vitamin B had been destroyed st other tests showed that chicks developed pellagra when fed the same ration after it had been heated to degrees tor for hours then this group of chicks was fed yeast which had been heated enough to destroy vitamin B but not enough to injure vitamin 0 they recovered this indicated that cooking the ration had destroyed 0 as well as B it Is thought that only the vitamins were injured by the cooking |