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"Eat Three Cakes A Day" -- about 1920

Bennington Museum, Vermont

 

Charles and Max Fleischmann founded Fleischmann's Yeast Co., in Ohio in 1868 ... To boost sales the company ran a "Yeast for Health" campaign, and from 1917 to 1924.

-- Tove Danovich, National Public Radio, 2018

 

"In 1920 Fleischmann began to expand on the idea of 'yeast for health.' Now, yeast was good for skin troubles, stomach troubles, and a 'general run-down condition' ... The Federal Trade Commission filed a cease-and-desist letter against Fleischmann

in 1931 ...."

--Science Health Institute

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