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AN important statement upon the supply and price of bread was made by the Minister of Food in the House of Lords on December 19; it was supplemented by the chairman of the Medical Research Council. Lord Woolton said that, although we are already spending £35,000,000 in subsidizing flour generally, an extra £750,000 is to be spent in three months (as from December 1, 1940) to keep the cost of all bread at 8d. or less for the 4 lb. loaf. He had further decided to adopt an 85 per cent extraction as a basis for wholemeal flour, which would be supplied at the same price as what was called “national straight run” white flour (70 per cent extraction). Synthetic vitamin B1 will be added to the white flour, but supplies will probably not be available in any quantity until May. Lord Woolton is loth to force wholemeal bread upon the public for several reasons, one very important one being the failure of high-extraction flour to keep as well as white flour. But he has been impressed by the unaninimity of scientific opinion on the nutritive value of wholemeal bread, and therefore in the printed literature of the Ministry of Food he will continue to advocate its virtues.
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Supply and Price of Bread. Nature 147, 83 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147083c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147083c0