The vitamin content of vegetables

✍ Scribed by Pyke, Macnus

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1942
• Weight: 337 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000611001

✦ Synopsis

In nn nttempt-to obtain detailed dntn on which n:crnge vnluea might be based, the vitnniin contents of n large nuiiiber of the different varieties of regotablee grow throughout tho ycnr in the Roynl Horticultural Society's gardens have been determined. Tho vegetables richest in vitamin-d appcnr to be apinnch, cnuliflower lenves, parsley, and cnrrots ; those richest in vitamin-B,, Jerusalem artichokes, pens, padey, garlic, and spinach, and those richest in ritnmin-C, spring cnbbnge, sprouts, broccoli, pnrsley, knle, nnd spinach. Cnbbage Vitamin--4 (i.n. per 100 g.) hnrrested eurly in the ycnr contnincd nn arerage vitamin4 content fire nnmplcq linage Arcrnge times ns grant ns thnt in Into summer or autumn vnrieties. Spinach .. .. .. .. U 10,000-13,000 11,200 500-11,o0o 7 m -3700 Although lnany figurcs have been collected for the vitnmh content to choose a single vdue as representat,ivc of any vegetable when Salad ollions . . . . . . . . 8 . 3ooo-#)oo 2000 calculating its nutrit,ional contribution to the diet. The wide Sprouting broccoli . . .. . . 4 1000-3000 ZOO0 3 w 9 o o o 1200 1000-1300 1100 rnnge of values found in the Iiternture is due not only to different Kble *. * * * * . 8 a plant, cells, the body nlso will have siniilnr difficulty rind the chciuical results, tliougli innccunitc, m y in fnct give a reasonable estiinate Of I n the following tables, in the CDSC of green \regotables, international units of vitamin-d hare been cnlculnted by dividing the amount of carotene found by 0.6 pg. For cnrrots, hoaevcr, this result has value. ngnill diVided by 3. Vitnniifi-A in cegetnblw No. of Cadiflower Icnbea * * . .