The dietary survey of home meal of elementary school children (148 children) at Kimpo-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture, was conducted for three days in July, 1971.
All the intake of nutrients calculated from the home menus was lower than their recommended allowances, and esgecially animal protein, calcium and vitamin A seemed to be remarkably deficient. The lowest intake of them was always observed in mountainous district. The average intake of individual food group was also lower than the recommended standard for 11 years old children. It was observed that most of the children took little or none of milk group, and a little amount of fruits, green or yellow vegetables and cereals. The lower intake of most food groups was observed, and consequently, the positive correlation was obtained between calorie and other nutrients.
Great attention should be drawn to give an adequate guidance of their dietary habit in near future.

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Urinary 17 KS and 17 OHCS levels were determined in normal subjects and patients with liver diseases after the administration of ethyl linoleate or phospholipid.
After the administration of 9g ethyl linoleate per day, the average value of urinary 17KS was significantly increased, but no change of that of 17 OHCS was observed.
In the normal subjects, given 1.0g or 1.5g of phospholipid per day, the levels of both of urinary 17 KS and 17 OHCS were significantly elevated.
In the patients with acute hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, no remarkable changes were observed.
From these results it was concluded that ethyl linoleate or phospholipid might play a important role in effecting on the function of the adrenal cortex.

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The production of frozen-stored foods has been favorably increased. Particulary, there has been a sharp raise in demand for shrimp in Japan, on account of its favorite flavor. However, no investigation has been reported on the freshness of frozen-stored shrimp on the market.
So, the freshness of the goods was checked up by means of the K-value and the amount of trimethylamine-N. The results obtained are shown in Figs. 1-5, and Table 1. Their freshness was found to be lowered as their storage time increases. The sensory test of the texture of the commercial-frozen shrimps after boiling was also undertaken. The texture of the frozen shrimps having as high K-values as 40-50% was definitely coarse. Thus, it is desirable to keep the K value of commercial frozen shrimp below 40%.

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In the protein extraction from rice bran with an alkaline solution, it was observed that the pH value of the suspension decreased with time of incubation. This phenomenon, which appeared not only to lower the protein yield but to affect the quality of the protein isolate, was inferred to be due to the liberation of acidic components from rice bran during the course of protein extraction.
Phosphoric acid and phytic acid were detected in the extracts and identified as the acidic components increasing in their amounts with time of incubation. Addition of an anion exchange resin such as Dowex 1 X 4 (OH-form, 100-200 mesh) to the suspension of rice bran with an alkaline solution, i. e. conventional alkaline extraction medium, was found effective in preventing the decrease of pH value of the suspension during extraction and thus in increasing final protein yield.
This alkaline-resin extraction method gave the protein preparation of more favorable features compared with that obtained by the conventional alkaline extraction method; the preparation by the new method was colourless and odourless, and rich in proteins of high molecular weight species, but poor in phosphoric contaminants.

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The effect of fortification of a meatless meat, a textured soy protein, with methionine and lysine was examined with growing male rats. The growth of rats fed 8% protein meatless meat diet was improved by supplementing 0.142% methionine, the first limiting amino acid, whereas the fortification of 0.192% and 0.288% lysine, the second limiting factor, caused the depression of growth rate. The depression of food intake occured on the first day of feeding with the lysine fortified diet, while the fortification of methionine stimulated food intake. When normal young rats were offered three kinds of meatless meat diets, non-fortified, fortified with 0.192% lysine, and with 0.192% lysine and 0.164% methionine, they ate the methionine fortified diet in preference, while protein depleted rats did not. Elevated concentration of free lysine and depressed concentration of free methionine in blood plasma were observed in rats fed the meatless meat diet fortified with 0.192% lysine, and most of liver of rats with more than 0.096 lysine fortified diets was observed to be fatty. It was suggested, from these results, that amino acid imbalance may occur when the meatless meat is fortified with more than 0.1% lysine.

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From the standpoint of insulin therapy for diabetes mellitus, an understanding was sought as to how metabolic activities changed in response to a daily administration of insulin.
In this paper adaptive responses such as changes of body weight, food intake, blood glucose and insulin concentration were observed in alloxan diabetic rats administered insulin (1I. U. /100g of body weight/day) for long period.
1) Daily administration of insulin to alloxan diabetic rats brought a more significant gain in body weight (4.4g/day) during a 5 week period than that of a saline solution only (2.4g/day).
2) The administration or non-administration of insulin to alloxan diabetic rats showed no significant -difference in their food intake.
3) The effect of insulin on a high glucose level in the blood maintained only for 90 minutes after injection.
4) Endogenous immunoreactive insulin in the blood showed rather a low level in alloxan diabetic rats with insulin than those without insulin.

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