Did IQ scores go up for some men after the introduction of iodized salt in 1924? Researchers analyzed data from World War I and World War II to try to […]
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One of First Vitamin-Fortified Breakfast Cereals
PEP was a whole-wheat breakfast cereal introduced by the Kellogg Company in 1923. A long-running rival to Wheaties, PEP became in the 1930s the first cereal fortified with vitamins through […]
How About a Vitamin D-Enriched Beer?
In 1936, capitalizing on the demand for vitamin-fortified foods, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, introduced a vitamin D-fortified canned beer. Evidently it wasn’t popular, since Schlitz discontinued […]