| Description | Lists members present, plus Captain Cannon from Harvard University, L E Hill, J Field Beale and Gertrude Dixon from the Wheat Commission, with Sir Herbert Smalley, Prisons Commissioner. Gives committee business -- letter from the Wheat Commission on the diverting of maize for human use -- the evidence from Smalley on the success of [wholemeal] bread in prisons, and a resolution to form a research committee into the digestibility of bread from high milling standards -- a memo from T B Wood on price fixing -- a report from F G Hopkins on the food value of cocoa -- a proposal from T Bolas to investigate 'a digestible food from the cellulose of waste wood, saw dust etc' -- a sample of flour from sweet potato chips, and bread made with flour from banana chips. p84-91. |