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The Utilization of Inulin for Growth by the Young White Rat

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Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. Young white rats (65 to 75 gm.) were maintained upon a diet, whose limiting factor was a calorific one.

2. When extra calories in the form of inulin from chicory, sucrose, or fructose were supplied as a supplement to the basal diet, the rate of growth was increased. The utilization of inulin under these experimental conditions, as measured by the response in growth, was distinctly inferior to that of sucrose or fructose.

3. Inulin could not be effectively utilized by the young white rat as the sole source of carbohydrate since the marked intestinal fermentation of the polysaccharide caused distention of the intestine and usually death within a few days.