VALUABLE FIND
COCOA-SHELL WASTE RICH IN VITAMIN D Received Oct. 22, 10.20 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 22. The Lancet says that cocoa shell, almost a waste product of the cocoa industry, has been found to possess at least a quarter of the vitamin D content of cod-liver oil and is likely to prove a means of . increasing the value of winter diet in Britain. Experiments have shown it is useful for cattle foodstuffs. Part of vitamin D Which it contains, when consumed by cows, is conveyed to the milk. Thus butter made in winter from this milk will have a vitamin D content equal to summer butter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 9
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