Cereals and rickets

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IV. In prophylactic feeding tests rats received the various products as the cereal component of a rachitogenic ration. Immature yellow dent maize promoted better calcification than the corresponding mature maize. Commercially canned sweet corn promoted better calcification than the corresponding ripe seed. These differences could not be explained by more favorable Ca/P ratios. V. In similar 5-week tests, yellow dent maize, germinated for as long as 4 days, had the same rachitogenic properties as the original seed. Autolysis of such germinated maize resulted in a product definitely less rachitogenic than germinated or untreated maize.

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