Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-17

,rou impurities as crystallized cane
srgar and which demonstrate 10 what
a state of perfection the manufactur :,
of this article has been orougnt. -
glucose which Is impure or imperiecuy
made is put upon the market, " CAL
only be the result ofcareless or ignoran!
manufacture, and my remarks 90 no!
| apply to il, any more than statement
OF the healthfulness Of pure cane-sugar
would apply to impure, unrenhed cane'
sugars.
opjv produced In small quantities IN
tbis country, or were imported st great
cost from foreign parts, nobody ever
dreamed that either Of them was IN
iurious TO human health; or that they
nossessed any deleterious quality what
ever. but when they assumed an import
ance that brought them into direct
competition with cane-sugar and malt,
the cry Of poison was heard:
Much hue and cry has been made
lately about the presence OF glucose In
candy. And yet what Is there against
its use here? All that Is demanded Oh
confectionery is that it should be whole
some and satisfactory to the taste. am
not aware that when / buy candy am
demanding cane sugar, especislly
when know that many OF the artlcies'
even If made from pure cane sugar,
must consist of substances very differ-
ant from it, owing to the changes which
that substance suffers in the manufac-
ture of candy. The mere boiling with
the addition of small amount OF fruit
acids is sufficient to convert cane sugar
into glucose in confectionery L nave
been exhibitions Of samples OF canoy
labeled as containing glucose. IL would
be more interesting to exhibit canuies
that do not contain glucose; Tor, Win
perhaps the exception of rock-candy'
which Is pure cane sugar, 1t would pe
difficult to find many candies that DO
not contain more or less glucose, either
made from cane sugar or starch. here,
again, these somewhat premature pole
mists stumble over an awkward matter
How will they dispose of raisins, which
contain nearly thirty per cent. OF
crane sugar, and which are so often
found i'm CONNECTIONS and cake? Would
thew abolish the use of maple sugar and
honey because they consist mainly Of
glucose?
Still more troublesome does the mat
ter become when preserved fruits are
mentioned. The well-known fact thai
cane sugar breaks INTO glucose and al
lied sugars when its water solution is
boiled with large amount of an acid,
il a difficult matter to dispose of. The
slight amount Of acid which is contain.
ed in fruits converts the sugar with
which they are boiled into glucose and
kindred sugars. Are they, then, also
to be condemned because they contain
glucose?
There is not the slightest foundation
for the statement that grape sugar is
unhealthy; it is one OF the
heaIthiest substances known, and
has always been, and will
always be, one of the chief articles OF
human food. Every time we eat ripe
fruit, we eat glucose, pecisely the
same as made from starch, except that
one is made from starch by nature,
and the other by human agency.
Every time that we eat food containing
starch, as potatoes, for instance, the di.
gestive organs make grape sugar out oil
It. Even in the mouth the change
begins. Chew for few minutes the
end ola starched pocket handkerchief,
and it will soon begin to taste sweet,
the ferment of the saliva turning the
starch into glucose. Surely no one
could say that glucose can have an UNI
wholesome effect on us, when it exists
in our most favorite articles of food, and
in those in which it does not exist in its
pure state, the digestive organs produce
il. We see, therefore, that not on ~ is
glucose perfectly harmless article of
food, but ii is d perfectly wholesome arti-
Gle of food, for, as has been stated, the
grape sugar from starch is the same as
that existing in nature in fruit, and is
an established article of food.