CATTLE FOODSTUFFS
VALUE OF COCOA SHELL LONDON, Oct. 22. (Received Oct. 22, at 11 p.m.) The Lancet says that cocoa shell, almost a waste product in the cocoa industry, has been found to possess at least a quarter of the vitamin D content of cod liver oil, and is a likely means of increasing the value of winter diet in Britain. Experiments have shown that it is useful cattle foodstuffs Part of the vitamin D, which it contains, when consumed by cows, is conveyed to the milk. Thus butter made in the winter from this milk will have vitamin D content equal to summer butter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 13
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