The vitamin B content of malt extract

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showed that some, but not all, malt extracts cured polyneuritis in pigeons. Stammers [1924] secured satisfactory though sub-maximal growth in rats on a basal diet devoid of vitamin B with a supplementary diet representing 8 g. of malt per animal per day. Southgate [1924] showed that "barley and malt contain watersoluble B, as judged by the effect on rats, in considerable and equal amounts." Finally, Harden and Zilva [1924] showed that "the vitamin B of barley is not affected by the malting process and is frequently present in the finished malt, but is absent from the culms."

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