542 



NIACIN 



little or none) found by these workers are listed in Table XIV. The nico- 

 tinic acid content of these foods is also listed. It is interesting that, with 

 a few exceptions, the nicotinic acid values compare fairly well with the 

 pellagra-preventive potency found by these workers in empirical testing. 



TABLE XIV 

 Pellagra-Preventive Potency of Foodstuffs (Goldberger Ratings)" 



" Most of the nicotinic acid values are taken from "Composition of Foods," in U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture Handbook No. 8. 



A. OCCURRENCE IN FOOD 



The nicotinic acid^'' content of all common food items has been com- 

 piled by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics of the 



3 J. Goldberger, G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers, Public Health Repts. 



{U. S.) 43, 1385 (1928). 

 ' J. Goldberger and W. H. Sebrell, Public Health Repts. {U. S.) 45, 3064 (1930). 

 6 W. H. Sebrell, Public Health Repts. (U. S.) 49, 754 (1934). 

 6W. H. Sebrell, G. A. Wheeler, and D. J. Hunt, Public Health Repts. {U. S.) 50, 



1333 (1935). 

 ' W. H. Sebrell, R. H. Onstott, and D. J. Hunt, Public Health Repts. (U. S.) 53, 



72 (1938). 

 ^» Nicotinic acid in this instance and in many other places in this section is used in 



its generic sense to mean total nicotinic acid, irrespective of whether the actual 



form present is the acid, the amide, or the bound forms of either. 



