How many women, how many times, while setting about their daily lask of cooking the family meals, have wished that the world's food might be taken in tablet form? No more buying of meat, fish, vegetables; no more cooking of them. No more saucepans to wash or potatoes to peel. Just pop a tablet into your mouth at breakfast-time; another at lunch time; another at tea-time and another at dinner time. And be nourished.
Chemists have been working on the subject of food in tablet form for ten jong years. Now they have produced the tablet—a small yellow one which tastes something like sweet chocolate d is the equivalent of a quarter of a pound of meat, two oranges and a milk pudding. It contains the oil of four fish—halibut, tunny, cod and whale—and guarantees to give vitamins A, B, C and D in stated quantities.
Only chemists can visit the chemists' own annual exhibition, where the tablet is on view and can be eaten. But the indefatigable research workers who have produced this wonder tell us all about it. Says the chemist in charge: "It is possible to produce the whole thing without having to import any raw material into this country." It seems that already the Army is conducting careful experiments into the possibility of feeding on synthetic vitamin foods. "Providing that bread and water were also available," the chemist continued, "and that we could keep a plant running, we could, in an emergency, feed the whole population of the British Isles indefinitely on tablets."
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