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SUCH studies as have been made on the riboflavin in milk point to the existence of species differences in respect of the forms in which this vitamin occurs in milk. Thus Kon and Mawson1 reported that the concentration of riboflavin in human milk is very low, and found that the method of Emmerie2, in which riboflavin is extracted by methanol was inapplicable to it. Davis et al. 3 found the methanol method unsuitable for sow's milk, and at the same time suggested that riboflavin might be present in sow's milk in a form different from that occurring in cow's milk. In view of the foregoing observations, the partition of riboflavin between free riboflavin, flavin mononucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide in the milk of several species has been studied.
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MODI, V., OWEN, E. Riboflavin in Milk. Nature 178, 1120 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781120a0
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