§ Mr. Lennox-Boydasked the Minister of Food why permission has been given to certain firms to manufacture corn flakes when this process requires twice as much coal as the manufacture of wheat flakes and the loss on the finished article is 40 per cent. of the Indian corn and the corresponding loss on wheat flakes is only 2 per cent.
§ Mr. StracheyWith the object of introducing some variety into the range of cereal breakfast foods it was recently decided to make some maize available, to manufacturers with the necessary plant for producing corn flakes, instead of a proportion of the wheat being used for wheat flakes. Only one manufacturer has so far been able to start production and his early experience indicates that, while fuel consumption will be higher than in the manufacture of wheat flakes, the increase will fall far short of that suggested in the Question. About 60 per cent of the maize grain is used in the production of corn flakes, compared with about 80 per cent. of the wheat in making wheat flakes. In neither case, however, is there a loss, as the by-products are used for animal feeding.