SYNTHETIC FOOD.

Evening Star, Issue 15187, 19 May 1913, Page 3

SYNTHETIC FOOD.

ar -' Oppenheimer describes in “0. Tageblatt ’ remarkable experiments which have been made by Prolessor Abderhalden, of Berlin, in the synt.h,^lcPPri L ation of food. Professor Abderhalden has succeeded in keeping a dog ahve on food which he produced synthetically in his laboratory. He accomplished this, not by creating the actual foods which animals normally feed on but by administering the chemical con’ stituents of the food in simpler form". Tha necessary fafc was administered in the form of glycerine and sobacic acid and the necessary carbohydrates in the form of sugar the production of the indispensable albumen at first proved an obstacle, but the difficulty was P overconi6 The dog flourished. Professor Abderhalden went further. He gave another doe instead of this food, a mixture of acitk prepared in his laboratory, and the animal proved to be well nourished. In this way it was proved that everything necessary for the support of animal Hff can be synthetically manufactured out ol half a dozen elements.