Cod liver oil, slipped off a cold metallic tablespoon and down the throat, while holding the nose. It made the small recipients shudder – sometimes even gag – but it would also make them grow ...

For generations of children, it was a daily horror to have to swallow a spoonful of cod liver oil. Now scientists are saying that grandmother was quite right to insist on the foul-tasting liquid.

Giving cod-liver oil to babies reduces the risk of ... in Norway revealed that infants regularly given a spoonful of the oil during their first year were 25 per cent less likely to develop the ...

That is cod liver oil, the oil that was used by industry, taken as a medicine, and despised by generations of children. Cod fish are found in the cold waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.