New Zealand cookbooks as a reflection of nutritional knowledge, 1940–1969

New Zealanders have been exposed to nutritional information from health professionals, government and non‐government bodies for at least 100 years. The present study analyses both community and national cookbooks published in New Zealand from 1940 to 1969 to ascertain if nutritional information and/or recipes with special nutritional significance are transmitted to the community via this medium. During the war years and rationing, it was found...