Potato Starch and Refection
- 1 October 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 31 (4), 543-549
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002217240001771x
Abstract
1. Refection occurs as a rule in rats receiving diets containing raw potato starch.2. Rats were maintained for one year on a diet deficient in the vitamin B complex and containing raw potato starch. Two of them attained a weight of almost 300 grm. and made sustained gains at a rate of almost 4 grm. daily.3. Rapid decline, symptoms of vitamin B1and B2deficiency and death were observed in these rats after their diet had been steamed.4. Steaming under identical conditions does not alter the vitamin B (complex) content of other diets.Keywords
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