On the other hand, in the presence of adequate lysine, bread supplemented with gluten gives a high rate of growth, some five times that observed on a diet ci ordinary bread, and this high rate is achieved with diets containing only 10-15% gluten, giving a total protein content in the diet 20-25%, reckoned on a dry-weight basis. Under these conditions the improvement observed in the nutritive value of the protein is primarily due to the threonine contributed by the gluten supplement.In the Food Standards Committee Report on Bread and Flour3 it is recommended that bread supplemented with gluten should be designated as high-protein ' bread only if it contains at least zzo/b of protein, on a dry-weight basis. I t is interesting that this level, which appears to have been chosen only on the general ground that it represents a significant increase in protein content compared with that of ordinary bread, is in fact the level at which the growth-promoting value of the bread protein reaches an optimum value, provided additional lysine is also present.-In evaluation of the protein and energy value of wheat, barley and maize when fed in corljunction with wheat offals was made. The Gross Protein Value test, and two methods of estimating protein and energy retention, one the conventional balance technique and the other body analysis, were used. For protein and energy provision, the cereals were of equal value when fed in this way. The values obtained by the two methods of determining protein retention varied significantly and this is discussed. The relative accuracy of the several methods is also discussed together with the validity of the Gross Protein T'alue test.