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Food for Work. Soldiers with special tasks get special foods. Examples:
> Recruits receive an excess number of calories, but even so 70% of them lose weight because of unaccustomed hard labor.
> Soldiers in forts and those below the surface get food rich in the sunlight vitamin D—smoked fish, butter, eggs, milk, fat cheeses, etc.
> Parachutists get liver sausages, Swedish hardtack, vitamin C pills. They are the only men in the forces supplied with artificial vitamins.
> Troops in the tropics get frozen fruit preserves and milk powder; those in the Arctic get a mixture of meat and vegetable powders, milk powders and dried pressed fruits.
> A special preparation of fruit and grape sugar, powdered meat, fat, milk protein, vegetable vitamins and fruit essence is given to troops in the field to overcome dryness of the throat and thirst. Most troops carry with them a lemon powder to improve the taste of drinking water.