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: 
| TABLE 85.—Continued. 
Ls w ¢ 
On a - = rene 
} Uv SI aw) BS , ieee 
| & De = S g i 2 a | §2 
ae : af 
e ©) 
Experiment No. 564, with | Gms. | Gms. | Gms. | Gms. | Gms. | Gms. | Cals 
WoC). 
(Duration 4 days.) 
Food eaten: 
3677 Malta iCal e - - |1200.0/1029.00/146.40| 18.24) 864.36/35.16| 4609 
3678 Milk, - - ye 1547021) $7 10.03.21 1 74 50/202), 021) 282780133 OneAa zo 
3679| Cream, - - - |3017.1| 797.12| 77.24|617.00| 102.88|15.99] 7295 
; Sugar, - 5 : - | 191.6) I9r.60) — re MEO TOON" fa 759 
oatats t= - - |9878.8|2737.04|398 .14 897.26 1441.64 85 .06/17083 
3083) Feces from total food, ~- | 247.2] 193.04] 48.53 39.75 LOARTOIST EO Lio 
Feces* from food other | 
framnvialtal Nitas 9) 9) — — FR S\ AS. OS) bres 552 
eeces” irom Malta Vita . | 
alone, - - - - = a 40.796) | == 93.21; — 635 
Amount digested from total | 
TOOd. = % s - |9631.6/2544 00/349 .61/857.51 1336.88/47.19 15896 
Amount* digested from | 
Malta Vita alone, - —— = 105.42) == a oa West ere 
Energy of urine from total 
food,t - - - PND ores art sare ee Byes gt 437 
Energy of urine from Mal- 
taVita-alone,t  - et cone = = — eas — 132 
Coefficients of availability: Te Yo Jo Jo To % % 
Of total food, - 2 — 92.95] 87.81] 95.57| 92.73/55.48/90.49 
OF Malta Vita alone: - — 87.37) 72.01; — 89.22} — (83.36 








* Kstimated by the method described on page Igr. 
urine was 1.25 calories per gram of digestible protein. See explanation page Igo. 
+Computed by assuming that the amount of the energy lost in the organic matter of the 
As was the case with the experiments with Grape-Nuts, 

some of the conditions resulting from the diet in these experi- 
ments were unpleasant. ‘There was fermentation, and appar- 
ent irritation of the intestine, with accompanying pain for two 
of the subjects, which, though not so severe as in the case of 
one subject on Grape-Nuts, necessitated the termination of the 
experiment with J. A. R. a day before those with the others 
ended. At the beginning of the experiment this subject 
thought the diet very palatable and he was very confident 
that he could continue on it as long as desired. It is possible 
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