A STUDY OF THE VITAMIN B COMPLEX OF RED KIDNEY BEANS AND POLISHED …

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A STUDY OF THE VITAMIN B COMPLEX* OF RED
KIDNEY BEANS AND POLISHED RICEf
BY J. H. AXTMAYER
(From the Department of Chemistry, University of Porto Rico, Rio Piedras)
Received for Publicationa?”September 10, 1929
IT DOES not seem necessary to review in this paper the literature per
taining to vitamin B and the researches which have shown its multiple
nature, since this has been summarized and discussed in the recent litera
ture pertaining to the complex nature of vitamin B, especially in an edi
torial review by Sherman (1928) and in a dissertation by Chase (1928).
Sherman and Axtmayer (1927) devised a method by means of which
they determined which of the two now recognized factors of the vitamin
B complex, viz., the antineuritic or vitamin B and the pellagra-preven
tive or vitamin G, is the limiting factor in whole wheat flour and in milk
powder. In view of the fact that highly polished rice and red kidney beans,
served either separately or together, is a dish which is consumed daily
by the people of Porto Rico, at the sacrifice of other more nutritive food
stuffs, it was decided to apply this method to…