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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 52 No. 2 February 1954, pp. 209-216
Copyright © 1954 by American Society for Nutrition
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Zinc Metabolism of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets

Helen M. Tribble1 and Florence I. Scoular

School of Home Economics, North Texas State College, Denton

Self-selected diets furnished from 9.8 to 14.4 mg of zinc daily.

The subjects excreted from 0.6 to 1.8 mg of zinc in the urine and from 3.2 to 7.9 mg in the feces.

An average of 8% of the ingested zinc was excreted in the urine and 42% in the feces.

All of the subjects were in positive zinc balance and retained an average of 6.6 mg per day.

1 Data submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Foods and Nutrition, February, 1953. Present address: Home Economics Supervisor, Greenville Division, Lone Star Gas Company, Texas.

Manuscript received 25 August 1953.




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