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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 31 No. 4 April 1946, pp. 397-406
Copyright © 1946 by American Society for Nutrition
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Self Selection of Diet

I. Selection of Purified Components1

Two Figures

E. M. Scott

Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1. The appetites of eighty-seven normal rats, allowed their choice of sucrose, casein, hydrogenated fat, and salts, are described. Thirty-four of these animals failed to grow.
2. The animals could be separated into two groups on the basis of their appetites for casein.
3. The appetites of these animals, aside from that for salts and calories, showed no apparent relation to physiologic or nutritional need.

1 Contribution No. 581 of the Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh. Aided by a research grant of the Buhl Foundation.

Manuscript received 29 October 1945.




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