Abstract
THE Medical Research Council in its second memorandum on bread1 described in general terms the specification for 85 per cent National wheatmeal. It should contain 85 per cent of the weight of the clean wheat and in the case of a reconstituted meal should include all the white flour, all the reduction roll tails, mill finish and purifier tails and sufficient fine bran to reach the 85 per cent extraction figure. Analyses were given of meals prepared on the experimental plant in these laboratories, from which it was deduced that National meal should not contain less than 1 i.u. of vitamin B1 per gm., and the fibre should not exceed 0-9 per cent.
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Macrae, T. F., Bacon, J. S. D., Hutchinson, J. C. D., and McDougall, I., Chem. and Ind., 60, No. 40, 723 (1941).
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National Bread. Nature 149, 460–462 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149460a0
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