Show potato controversy peeling potatoes to modern housewives is a sin potato jackets they firmly believe are rich in anti scurvy vitamin C while the po tatos inside is little more than starch and water recently the british medical journal laughed at this assertion referred to some new research of a food chemist mamie guiver iVer the ascorbic acid vitamin C content of potatoes she found is more than skin deep in fact said the journal the amount of vitamin increases from without inwards this thi admirable vegetable by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron slid and aneurin vitamin BI may have a rough exterior but clearly conceals beneath it a heart of ascorbic acid |