AVS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cornbread, Salt Pork, Pantothenic Acid
13 Feb 2016
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Avs 101 - lecture 7 - water-soluble vitamins. Tingling in hands and feet, confusion, difficulty breathing. Concluded it destroyed poisonous substance in rice. Imperial japanese navy was fed raw fish and polished rice. Raw fish has thiaminase which inactivates thiamin. Milk, meat, and vegetables had to be added to their diets. Curled-toe paralysis - inability to walk and diarrhea in chickens. In humans lip, tongue, and skin lesions. Can occur if improper and length feed storage. During the depression, deficiency went rampant in the southern u. s. Diet consisted of cornbread, molasses, and salt pork. Corn is low is niacin present but humans can"t access it. Theory: pellagra was not a contagious/communicable disease. Required by pig, dog, rat, and chick. Synthesized by ruminants, humans, horses, and rabbits. Convulsions in rats, swine, dogs, and infants. If fed raw egg white biotin deficiency. Intrinsic factor produced in gi tract helps body absorb vitamin b12. Requires folic acid, vitamin c, and vitamin b12.
