Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-06-28
TRICKS OF TRADE.
How Sugar is Adulterated In Various
Ways---ssiucose and trOmare
of Lead.

of Lead.
nSnoar is sweet and so are you" is net
the most pleasant compliment ysu can
psya young lady if she happen to be
aware of the nauseOus constituents So
called sugar too often represents. Perhaps
no article of con umpticn is more freely
adulterate than this, and many analytI-
cal chemists declare that brown sugars are
in general, unfit for common nse. A
Press reporter found Mr.. Lehman, State
Microscopes hard at work yesterday in
his laboratory examining a number OF llt>
tie brown pyramids and lump Of white,
soauy looking sd bstance.
{" What are you doing to-day, Doctor ~
was asked.
Il am Analysing several packages of
sugar purchased of grocers In the city,
and. as | expected, fad each sample mere
or less aduiterated."
"Saud l suppose" said the reporter.
" Not at all. That is a common mistake, 4"
replied the doctor. Headers are not SO
foolish as to use an article so easily detect
ed for sand being insolub g in water, the
| fraud would soon be exposed. [ have
never heard Of an suthf nticated discovery
| Of sand having been willfulty mixed with
sugar o. late years sugar adulteration has
| been redu. to science. The enlerpris-
| ing grocer does not even need to resort to
the sprink king can He can buy now III
The market variety of gr des of very fne
locking sugars, which contain from one
third to two>lh rds their weight Of the
arlifnial substan e, glucose This white
looking composition in front OF me Is
! glucose 1t is made from starch or stsrchy
substances by the actlCn OF matt or OF oil OF
vilriol 1t can be- produced very viii {
and ar-ooking, and almost but mol
quite granulated. Not only is this extern
| sively n>ed in table sugars, but mOlasses Is
largely adulterAted with it, and it is also
put into honey. The addition of this stuff
| to ordi.ary cane sugar has the effect OF
rendering the sweetening power Of the lat
! ter much les considerable for cane sugar
possesses power two and n half times a
| stlOng AS that of glucose or starch sugar,
by many called grape sugar Hence. avery
large quantity Of sugar thus adulterated
mus. be employe to produ given eff
feet and many housekeepers have prob
ably noticed the different sweetenIne
capAcitg OF sugars bought from sevefa
gr0Cars "
e Is glu oss poisonous or in any way
j. iurfou~ to the system p
" n ~ At all Cane sugar itself turns t.
The ~ jury lies in the deception and in
uejn& ,Gargef the same price for glucose
MIXTURE rs for real sugars Lump sugar i:
| ar less adulter.ted. la fact, were hard
sugar used altogether the adulteration
| bushes in this particular article of food
! would have poor time. If people sold
! glucose sugar open y rs suCh little COM
pl-int would be made for perhaps few
subjects show more disgusting details I'M
! der tn microscope than ordinary brown
cane sugar Putting aside the glucose. i
! my. contained in tn sample, you inVaFia
! by discover fragments IF cane, wood I
fibre, grit, particles of stone, lend. iron
and >warms of a naaseous beetle like ami
NAL ~ e OF the genus acarGs. This little
if.set t approaches somewhat in organiza-
fion and habits to the louise and the itch
ms CT The body oval, and from its
posttror part proceed tour long and stiff
brislles, WO together on each side, anC
some eight or ten smaller ones are ar,
ranged near Y at equal distances around
the circumference Of tue body. l. mas 3
long prohoscls and eight legs, each of thu
! latter being armed with a formidable
! book. They cling TO life with great tena
city, frr warm water does not always kill
them. Hence, those who swe ten their
drinks with brown sugIr must @allow
several # tt ese insects in living state, so
you see there are worse things thar
glucose The groCers have also way of
increasing the weight Of sugar by damp
ening it, and inferior grades are made Il
| Look tine by means of ultramarine blue
Glow about candies, Doctor?'
Well, | do not find the amount o
adulttration l expect in candies. Thu
yellow. clear cand, is the worst; chro'
mate If lead likely to produce bad poison
| ing i very OF ell used. The law ough tC
prohibit the sale Of light yellow candy
Glucose enters largely into the cOmposiLiOt
of sweetmeats, TO Inch we probable ow
the or. at supply of cheap candy. think
can safely say that ne rly all the preserved
fruits and it-butters. in which suga
used To be the preserving element, manu-
+ ctured III this and many other cities, ar,
now tempered with glucose. The latte
can be bought for a Fl" ceEts a pound
} either in the solid form or in thick strip
and enormous amounts are now b. ing made
IN the Unit States. lille L Am on thi;
subject l must again remind you o
the harmless character of glucose in com
: pa isO0 with the many other ad alteration
: so frequently detected in sirups and can
. dies. such as Iampblack, plaster of Paris
| chrome yellow a. d poisonous cOlorlns
| matter. though the latter is not neatly 81
! ! customary as in past years. l am strong
ly IF The opinion that the frequent dysp pep
Z sia biii0usness, bad teeth and genera
] frai}nass of the American people is due t,
the abusive consumptIo of candies
Whether aduiterated or not, the constan
! sucking and chewing of sugary substance
So common with gu children and grnwn
up dHug hters, Is pernicOus in he extrem
and parents should take it seriously int
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