Biscuit Boost

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 40

Biscuit Boost

ffl.Z. Press Association)

HASTINGS, Dec. 8.

Western Samoan children eating the New Zealand milk biscuit put on weight twice as fast as those not eating it, the inventor of the biscuit, Mr L. P. Chapman, said in Hastings last night. Mr Chapman said he was confident that a similar pattern would emerge from other countries where the biscuit was being distributed. As head of the Dairy Research Institute’s new products section, Mr Chapman has been responsible for the development of the biscuit At present four or five people were employed making the biscuit and about half a ton was produced a week. This would probably be stepped up to about a ton by March.

In its present form the biscuit was made in several fruit flavours, making it popular with children.

“Curry was popular in Formosa so we made some curry biscuits. But as it turned out, they were not popular anywhere else and we’ve stopped making them.”

One and a half tons of the milk biScuit were loaded on the Kwangsi at Wellington today, bound for Hong Kong and Korea.

C.0.R.5.0. is sending the biscuits to established organisations which maintain dispensaries and orphanages where there are nutrition and health programmes.

Supplies of the biscuits are expected to be maintained for up to seven years and the recipients have undertaken to send medical reports on the improvements in children’s health and educational attainment.