Brewer’s Yeast

“Goldberger’s need to disprove the Thompson-McFadden Commission almost certainly helped delay his demonstrating the curative and preventive power of brewer’s yeast (Bryan, 242). Goldberger’s time in SC re the field studies “delayed his exploitation of a new animal model: black tongue in dogs. It was not until 1925 that Goldberger and his colleagues reported that dried brewer’s yeast, milk, and meat contained a pellagra-preventative factor or “factor P-P” (245).