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DURING our investigations on the nutritional aspects of human sprue designed to find an experimental animal which might help in our basic understanding of this disease, we noted reports by Creek1 that wheat germ had a deleterious effect on growth of chickens and that this was associated with an apparent increase in fat content of fæcal droppings. After further examination of his experiments2 and after seeing the degree of ‘contamination’ of the raw wheat germ with flour as it comes from the mills, we felt that his results could possibly be accounted for by the adverse effect of gluten in the adherent flour.
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PARRISH, J., BOLT, R. Effect of Raw Wheat Germ on Nutrition of the Chicken. Nature 199, 398–399 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199398b0
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