Business: Food for the Aged

Doctors have long known that older people require fewer calories, less salt, and more proteins and minerals in their food. But, unlike the nation's babies, whose special requirements rolled up sales of $200 million in baby foods last year, U.S. oldsters have no line of food especially designed for them (although a few specialty items are on the market).

Last week Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 Varieties") announced a new line of canned foods for people over 60, said it will begin test-marketing it next month in Cincinnati, which has one of the...

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