Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-03
Candy and Its Effects.

SO many StuclEIc utOhS, dhu gwen no
so many works aud wise health maxims.
tells US that fure candy Is no. lrJurl-
GUS to childern, being chiefly sugar;
and that in winter it furnishes Il better
and hore healthful dessert than rich
pies or buildings.
This no doubt is very true if the
candy is pure, but careful invest cation
reveals the fact that pure caady is very
seldom seen. Hundreds OF tons OF
candy and confectionery are sold IN this
country every year made of glucose, or
grape sugar, aiulterated with terra alba
and other things, and colored with
great variety Of dyes, many CT which
are poisonous. Tie red dye 10 made
often from the blood of certain insects,
such as the cochiueai, which. though
not a pleasant idea, is harmless COM
pared to other dyes, sucL as vermilion
or sulphide of mercury, arsenic green,
Prussian and ultra marine blue, red
and white Leaf, carbonate Of copper,
etc.
So much has been said OF the danger
in eating colored candies that many
people form the idea that white candy
(uncolored) is perfectly safe. But the
danger is not contiued to the dyes.
Conversing not long since with gen.
tleman who has been for some years q
candy manufacturer in the city Ut New
York. doing business on a large scale,
learn that candy is seldom made OF
the pure cane sugar, such as we use
upon our tables, but chiefly and usuat-
" nude of glucose, orgrape sugar, and
terra alba.
Terra alba seemed to me. as l ex-
smined some of it which he kindly
sho xed me. to be sort OF whiting OF
powdered chalk of dirty white color.
/ have since been told that It was moth
ing more nor less than sulphate OF lime
or common plaster of Paris. 1t is
found in various parts of the earth, and
dug up and brought to this county IN
large q uantlties, aud sold at from SlU
to $50 q ton for aduiteratlng candies,
cream of tartar, baking powder, ground
rice. etc. 1t certainly ia neither nour'
ishing nor digestible, for it Is morgan
&c.
tits we'll known fact in physiology
that no inorganic substance IS mt Tor
food. On the contrary, inorganic sub
stances are always more or less inlurl,
GUS. To quote from Prof. Albert )
Bellows, (see Philosophy ot FOod. page
l56 No element, however much Ii
may be wanted In the system, can DC
made TO become a cobsiI Intent oil The
blood, or be appropriated Wy any OF the
tissues. unless that element has been
Organized in some plant and Is thus
fitted to be received according to the
laws of nature" and whoever dlsObeye
these laws must and will suffer the
penalty.
And how about grape sugar or glu'
cose? If it were simply the healthy
organic substance tina the name wouli
lead us to suppose Ii was; IN othel
words if it were made from the grape
or any good fruit, it might he ever
more healthful than cane sugar. Blu
grape sugar is made by chemists and
CANDY manufacturers from various ma
terials, starch, sawdust, sulphuric acid
brewers malt, and even from old rags
such as the ragman gathers in the dirty
streets and from house to house
Starch, woody fiber, ignin or rags. al!
contain the same chemical elements. Al
that is necessary to change starch, saw
dust, or rags into sugar Is to add LIT
tie oxygen and hydrogen. that Is lit
tie water, and by heat cause 1t tt
unite with it chemically.
Hooker says, "Grape sugar can be
made from either starch or wood by
the agency of heat and sulphuric acid.
He then proceeds to show how it is done
AID adds, IAN infusion of brewers
malt can be used in place of the dilute
sulphuric acid. As the fiber of cottor
and linen is really wood, sugar can be
made by the above process from cottor
and linen rags" Farther on he says
"The profit on such adulterations mus
be very great, for the materials uset
are all cheap. especially if an infusion
of malt be used instead OF suiphurlt
acid, in effecting the conversion:
Many candy manufacturers in Thu
country use potato starch and brewers
malt.
The effects of this manufactured glu
cose or grape sugar upon the system
are very bad. A recent writer upol
the subject says of it, - Its effect is t.
produce paralysis of various portions o
the system, especially the kidneys
when the effect IL not only to paraly z
them. but to turn them into q sugar.
substance; in. other words 10 prodac
Brieht's disease, q malady for whicl
ply sicians have found as yet no RENE
dy." Brisht's disease is characterized
Is DR.. Warren tells us, ny the presenc
of albumen in the urine. Diabetes,
disease perhaps not less alarming an
more common, is characterized Away
by the presence of glucose or crap
sugar. So that We may have goo
reason to fear eating sdul,erated con
feetionery, as q cause for this terribl
malsdy.
1.-THE worst effects of the use of teri
alba are. that the terrible diseases G
stone and gravel are caused by the In
PRODUCTION of earth into the system.
In England the manufac' ure of glu
cose IL probib ted by law; would it DO
be we'll to have Legislation on this sui
iect il this couLtry? Legislation tbs
would make it u crime to adultera'
any article of food with pciso' GUS
inorganic substances
Sugar is q useful and necessary eli
meut of our food, and is especial
needed and enjoyed by children. VIII
Grave it from an instinct of nature
Pure grape sugar, the sugar OF fruit
as prepared in natures laboratory.
more delicious and more wholeson
than ordinary cane sugar. lnasmuc
then AS sugar in fresh ripe fruit Is sur
to be pure, good and nourishing, let
give our Children, instead of caud,
plenty of good ripe fruit all the yes
round, and we shall have far less di
ease and more vigOr of body an
mird.-[Anna Holy oke Howard.
A SEARCH FOR GOOSE "A Ston
Ridge farmer lost goose. Two week
sfterward he happened to visit neigt
boring sawmill. While there he hear
goose and started in pursuit. After
long search, still guided by the noise
he came to q hole in the ground, al
looking down he saw the head and
part of the neck of his bird. 1t al
pears the goose had fallen into the biol
which being too small to allow sprea