Abstract
The Chinese hazel or litchi nut (Litchi Chinensis) has long been cultivated for medicinal and edible purposes in the Orient, and has attained a certain vogue in this country. A study of the therapeutic and food values of this fruit was made by Read, who describes the nut as “nearly globose with a dull brick-red pericarp which, when ruptured, exposes a sweet, brown, fleshy arillus surrounding a glossy chestnut-brown obicular seed ….”1 If this fleshy edible part corresponds in nutritive value to most of the fruits used in the American dietary, it should constitute a source of certain of the accessory food factors. The present study deals with the assay for vitamins A and B in the litchi nut.Young rats 25 to 30 days old, weighing 40 to 50 grams, were given the following diets:The growth of rats on the first ration was rather prolonged, lasting from 40 to 50 days before cessation. The diet was then irradiated with light from a quartz mercury vapor lamp, with the result that growth was immediately resumed for ...
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