Series: Scientific Sub-Committee. Meetings 1(41) - 13(41) Papers 1(41) - 54(41), 1 Jan-3 Dec 1941; Meeting 1(42) Papers 1(42) - 3(42), 16 Jan 1942; Meeting 1(43) Papers 1(43) - 4(43), 3 Feb 1943
Taylor Kenkel
A file of meeting minutes and memoranda documenting the Scientific Advisory Committee's discussions and recommendations on food policy. Subjects covered in the file include the fortification of flour with vitamins during bread production; the production of yeast, its nutritional benefits, and its promotion in suggested recipes; livestock policy such as the culling of lambs; and nationwide supplies and sources of vitamins. Documents in the file include a report concerning bread rationing; a discussion of dietary surveys, including a survey of working-class diets in London; a discussion of protein requirements and supplies; revisions of reports concerning the canning of fruit and vegetables; and a discussion of the industrial production and nutritional benefits of fat. Other subjects covered include the prioritisation of dairy herds over egg-laying fowls; the increase of rations for workers in heavy industry; and rationing in other European countries.
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The National Archives · 14 November 1941 English
1. In two previous reports (S.F.C.(40)28 and S.F.C.(40) 66) the Scientific Committee on Food Policy have emphasised the importance of milk as a protective food, providing an essential part of …
The National Archives · 1 August 1941 English
flours tend to produce badly formed teeth and bones which fracture easily. This great defect can be easily remedied by adding a small amount of calcium carbonate to the flour. …
The National Archives · 11 August 1941 English
2. Vitamins are chemical substances found in foods in minute quantities. They are essential for the maintenance of health and must be supplied in some form or other as the …
The National Archives · 3 July 1941 English
that, if 7 ozs. of calcium carbonate are added to 280 lbs. of white flour and 14 ozs. to 280 lbs. of 85 per cent. extracted flour, the tendency to …
The National Archives · 31 January 1941 English
6. Fruit. Home grown fruit is consumed fresh, canned, or used in the manufacture of jam. Fruit canned in this country is expensive and in consequence is not eaten to …
The National Archives · 9 May 1941 English
6. Fruit. Home grown fruit is consumed fresh, canned, or used in the manufacture of jam. Fruit canned in this country is expensive and in consequence is not eaten to …
The National Archives · 2 December 1941 English
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. FAT REQUIREMENTS, CONSUMPTION AND SUPPLIES. Seventeenth Report. The Scientific Committee on Food Policy has had under consideration a report prepared at the Committee's request by …
The National Archives · 17 April 1941 English
4. While we recognise that the public generally prefer to eat white bread rather than brown bread, it may be pointed out that the bread made from the specified 85% …
The National Archives · 28 April 1941 English
WAR CABINET. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. REVISED DRAFT ELEVENTH REPORT. CANNING OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. 1. The Committee have examined the question of canning in relation to wartime needs. …
The National Archives · 5 July 1941 English
One third of these cattle were slaughtered and completely analysed, the body being dissected, the parts ###hopped up and a sample taken for which dry matter, nitrogen, ether extract and …
The National Archives · 8 September 1941 English
6. The Committee have already drawn attention to the fact that for the same intake of fodder crops and concentrates, the cow will produce twice as much human food as …
The National Archives · 7 March 1941 English
of poultry flocks (e) There should be a culling by panels appointed to assist County War Agricultural Executive Committees. devaluation of the ration coupon takes (f) When a place be …
The National Archives · 5 May 1941 English
present under severe strain. The turn-over from milling ### 73% to 85% level would also materially help in maintaining the reserve which it has been decided is necessary. 3. The …
The National Archives · 15 March 1943 English
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY REPORT ON BREAD RATIONING 1. The Scientific Committee on Food Policy has considered the scheme for bread rationing outlined by the Ministry of Food in …
The National Archives · 6 March 1941 English
6. The Committee is assured that the nutritive value of bread baked from the recommended flour would be greater than that of white flour reinforced by the addition of vitamin …
The National Archives · 11 August 1941 English
As 3/8ths of this total is the poor quality protein of white flour considerable benefit would be secured by replacing white flour by that of 85% extraction flour (see F.P. …
The National Archives · 6 October 1941
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, W.1. 25th September, 1941. THE ADDITION OF CALCIUM SALTS TO BREAD. The Scientific Food Committee has been asked to …
The National Archives · 27 February 1941 English
DRAFT TWELFTH REPORT. The Nutritive Value and Production of Food Yeast. At their meeting held on 28th November, 1940, the Food Policy Committee invited the Scientific Committee to examine the …
The National Archives · 19 March 1941 English
DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT). SECRET. S.F.C.(41)14. COPY NO. 19TH MARCH, 1941. WAR CABINET. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. FUTURE MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. Note by …
The National Archives · 12 March 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The Minutes of previous meeting, S.F.C.(41) 4th Meeting, were considered and approved. 2. BREAD. (Reference S.F.C.(41) 3rd Meeting, Conclusion 3). THE COMMITTEE had before them …
The National Archives · 6 October 1941 English
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, W.1. 25th September, 1941. THE ADDITION OF CALCIUM SALTS TO BREAD. The Scientific Food Committee has been asked to …
The National Archives · 10 March 1941 English
neither in the daily wireless talks on food in the "Kitchen Front" nor in the "Food Facts" series which are published in the press. Wholemeal bread has been placed last …
The National Archives · 29 January 1943 English
SECRET. BREAD RATIONING Memorandum by the Ministry of Food 1. Introduction This paper does not debate the case for and against bread rationing. Its purpose is to indicate the nutritional …
The National Archives · 1 January 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING. The Minutes of the previous meeting (S.F.C.(40) 17th Meeting) were considered and approved. 2. BREAD. (Previous Reference: S.F.C.(40) 17th Mtg. Conclusion 2). SIR ALAN …
The National Archives · 2 February 1942 English
THE MILK POSITION. Notes by Professor A.W. Ashby. 1. The increased demand for milk during 1941 appears to have been due partly to its use as a substitute for other …
The National Archives · 19 February 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the previous meeting (S.F.C.(41) 3rd Meeting) were considered and approved subject to the following amendments:- Page 2, Paragraph 3, line 4, and …
The National Archives · 29 January 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the previous meeting (S.F.C.(41) 2nd Meeting) were considered and approved subject to the following amendment in Conclusion 5 second paragraph:- Second …
The National Archives · 14 January 1942 English
###ct during the period from 10th June, to 9th December, ###941, the number of lambs slaughtered was only 74.3% ### that expected. I have shewn that the yield of ###ue …
The National Archives · 21 June 1941 English
###CRET. ###C.(41) 28. ###MENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT). COPY NO. WAR CABINET. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. ###RANSFER OF THE OFFICES OF THE COMMITTEE TO THE …
The National Archives · 5 September 1941 English
As regards the enquiries carried out by the Ministry of Information, these do not, according to my information, include anything in the nature of a quantitative survey of dietary habits, …
The National Archives · 31 May 1941 English
returns to the soil a much larger proportion of the organic residues of fine plants grown, with the consequence that the humus content of the soil can be maintained at …
The National Archives · 3 April 1941 English
TABLE 1. BASAL ASSUMPTIONS. (a) Areas and production of crops at average yields and utilisation:- cereals 90% yield Area '000 Seed Human Stock tons Wheat 2,642 2,116 198 1,650 268 …
The National Archives · 15 September 1941 English
###. It follows directly from the preceeding paragraphs:- (a) That the amount of edible material (including offals) measured in calories is for any given fat percentage a definite proportion of …
The National Archives · 5 June 1941 English
6. Wheatmeal, in that it contains a large part of the germ is very much richer in the vitamins of the B group other than B1 than is white flour. …
The National Archives · 4 September 1941 English
IS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT). SECRET. S.F.C.(41) 41 COPY NO. WAR CABINET. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. DIETARY SURVEYS. Copy of a letter dated 28th …
The National Archives · 13 November 1941 English
THE PRODUCTION OF FAT* FROM SUGARS BY THE ACTION OF MOULDS. Memorandum by Professor H. Raistrick. Micro-organisms of all types, whether bacteria, yeasts or moulds, contain fat in varying amounts. …
The National Archives · 7 March 1941 English
CATTLE PASSING THROUGH M.O.F COLLECTING STATIONS 1940-41 Points are average of neighbouring weeks..
The National Archives · 9 May 1941 English
averages .398 tons S.E. per acre. The weighted average production of permanent grass as grazing and as hay is .544 tons S.E. per acre on the figures used here. This …
The National Archives · 26 November 1941 English
Department in June, 1939. Secondly, since the outbreak of war the L.T.R.S. has been investigating, with Professor Hilditch's co-operation, the synthesis of fat from crotonaldehyde, which is derivable in turn …
The National Archives · 26 June 1941 English
As stated above fat and carbohydrate are within certain limits isodynamically replaceable in the diet. But quite apart from the faulty metabolism which would result from a total replacement is …
The National Archives · 5 July 1941 English
FOOD CONSUMPTION AS SHOWN BY DIETARY STUDIES. Results of a dietary study undertaken in January/February 1941 by a commerical ###ncy on behalf of the Ministries of Food and Health are …
The National Archives · 9 July 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The Minutes of the previous meeting (S.F.C.(41) 8th Mtg.) were considered and approved. 2. NUTRITIVE PROPERTIES OF WHEATMEAL AND OF FORTIFIED WHITE FLOUR. (Reference: S.F.C.(41) …
The National Archives · 9 June 1941 English
COPY NO. ###5. ###941. NOTE ON LIVESTOCK AS AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION Conflicting views are still heard on the relation of livestock to soil fertility, on the …
The National Archives · 14 February 1941 English
REPORT ON THE NUTRITIVE VALUE AND MANUFACTURE OF FOOD YEAST. Prepared for the Scientific Food Policy Committee by a Sub-Committee: Chairman: Professor H. Raistrick, Department of Biochemistry, London School of …
The National Archives · 6 August 1941 English
1. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the previous meeting (S.F.C.(41) 9th Meeting) were considered and approved subject to certain amendments noted on the copy kept for record …
The National Archives · 25 February 1943 English
Population Calories per head per day from Pre-war millions domestic foodstuffs, 1942 national ntry Rural Urban Total Rural Urban average consumption population population (incl. black market) nce 20 20 2050 …
The National Archives · 4 July 1941 English
foods, therefore, especially of those from animal sources, may fall short of requirements. This deficit - the protein gap - may have to be filled mainly from plant sources for …
The National Archives · 26 November 1941 English
You told me on the telephone yesterday that it was by no means certain that nuts of a suitable quality could not be obtained from West Africa and that it …
The National Archives · 2 October 1941 English
FAT REQUIREMENTS CONSUMPTION AND SUPPLIES. Report by the Sub-Committee on Fats. ### ###fessor T.P. Hilditch). I. INTRODUCTION. The purpose of this report is to consider the position at the present …
The National Archives · 13 May 1941 English
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON FOOD POLICY. Note by Professor Ashby on Receommendations of Inter-Departmental Sub-Committee on Utilis- ation of Bone Crops. (Report on Marketing of Home-Grown Wheat in Cereal Year 1941-42). …