Show vitamin enriched pork shown feasible proper feeding will add vitamins to pork by W J DRYDEN research work at the washington state experiment station has shown that it is not only possible but entirely practical to increase the thiamin content of pork with selected feeds sub deficiencies of thiamin or vitamin bl constitute the most widely spread human nutritional ailment in the united states pork is recognized as one of the richest sources of thiamin among the natural and universally consumed foods the experiment showed that cull peas properly used in hog feeding will result in pork richer in thiamin there is no reason to doubt but what special markets may be developed advertising thiamin rich feed hogs enriched food pork iodine eggs enriched bread enriched milk and othe other r food products have had special markets developed along this line at the start the demand may be limited to hospitals and others who are willing to pay a premium for an enriched pork product on a fresh basis the ham and loin were found to contain the highest amounts of thiamin followed by shoulder heart liver and kidney the liver had the highest riboflavin followed by heart ham shoulder and loin i |