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‘Cold Barley Soup’
May 21, 2012
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 90, Issue 21
Thank you for that wise and informative letter on the nutritional deficiencies of soda by my Delaware friend Al Matlack (C&EN, March 26, page 4). I recall those beverages having a pH of about 3.5 and being good rust removers. My preference, after living 34 years in Wisconsin, is a glass container of “cold barley soup,” full of nutritional biochemicals and about 5% ethanol. At low intake levels it is thought to be a beneficial digestive fluid. It may account for my being an ACS member for over 50 years!
By Allen A. Denio
Newark, Del.
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