Year: 1959
Type: article
Abstract: I n an earlier paper (Kodicek, Braude, Kon & Mitchell, 1959) the reviewed evidence showed that maize and other cereals contain almost all their nicotinic acid in a bound form which is unlike any of the known nicotinoyl compounds in being unavailable to rats, dogs, poultry or pigs and, probably, man.For the rat or pig the full biological activity of bound nicotinic acid in maize and other cereals can be released by hydrolysis with 0.5 N-NaOH, which liberates free nicotinic acid (Chaudhuri & Kodicek, 1950;Kodicek, 1951;Harper, Punekar & Elvehjem, 1958;Kodicek et. al. 1956).Maize cooked with lime-water, as in the preparation of tortilla in Central America and particularly in Mexico, has been reported to cure nicotinic-acid deficiency in rats (Laguna & Carpenter, 1951 ;
Source: British Journal Of Nutrition
DOI: 10.1079/bjn19590055
Authors: E. Kodicek, P. W. Wilson
Institutions: University of Cambridge, Medical Research Council
Language: English
Subfield: Rheumatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2011927238