Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-12-09
DELETERIOUS FOOD.
LIST or ADutTsRATEo hNo DANGER
Gus ARTICLES.
Statement by New York Physician =
Analyses of Fraudulent Compou nds-
The Microscope Superior to Chem
istry Bread and MILK.
brooklyn Eagle.l

"The detection of the collaboration OF
food, said physician to mo the other day,
who has been connected with the New York
board Of health for the past seven years,
us at times difficult enough even to ana
lysts--to tho uninitiatei In tho science OF
chemi try and knowledge OF the microscopes
It is always so. No good, therefore, my
advising hou sekeepsrs to invest 500 or SIS In
purchasing that instrument Of divination
that tells US men OF science so very much
about so very little; no good adj
vising them either to set up a chemical lab.
oratory In the corner OF the pantry. Be-
fore the instrument was brought t. the aid
Of chemistry many authorizations OF food OF
q most pernicious character we're quite be-
yond the reach of exposure.
"But the mcroscops, with its auxiliary
use Of polarized light and the various su-
perior appliances with which modern art
has supplied il, has left no problem unsolved
In this direction IL unravels the most deli
cate vegetable tissues, aud by the peculiari-
ties OF their structure designates tho true
and the false with unfailing certainty. All
vegetable forms have definite organisms,
these organisms varying in different parts
OF the same plant Tue root, stem, leaf and
fruit, all exhibit marked difference in
their organic structuro--a structure de-
tectible III tine nunulest particle. iif
VARIOUS authorizations.
The doctor now took out OF his library
largo sheet of paper containing list OF the
deliberations OF tho most common articles
Of. food which he himself had examined.
Many OF the substances used are not only
harmless but even nutritious, but their
presence too often involves the addition OF
still vthor and more objectionable constitu-
emit, for tho sake Of pre- 'erving color and
improving the general appearance Of the
article.
Fiour--Rico beans, alum, bonc-dust. pins-
ter Of Paris
Rread--Mashed potatoes. rice, beans,
chalk, pipe, clay, plaster Of Paris, alum, car
Donate of ammonia. sulphate OF zinc.
Sugar Wheat and potato flour, tapioca,
starch, lead, iron, wnter plaster OF Paris,
sand chalk.
@Irom sugar to sugar confectionery"
said the doctor. "ths transition is easy. First
and foremost, let me tell you that the
articles in question are not even entirely
composed of sugar, but are largely adul-
terated with chalk, starch and pipe clay.
aAgain, sweets are often nicely done up in
colored papers, and the papers are very often
dyed with poisonous colors, and Tommy,
not content with eating his sweets, will per
sist in licking the paper. But worse than
all this, poisonous, because beautiful, pig
ments are very frequently made use OF tc
color the confectionery itself.
1To go back to the sugar again, large
number OF vegetable and other impurities
find their way into brown or unrefned
sugar Now sugar ia Certainly not ex-
pensive In ones dietary the refined kind
should therefore DO invariably used. Com.
mon sugar is often mixed with sand. II
you take clear, narrow glass, and dissolve
soma OF the suspected sugar in it, you will
find, IL your suspicious are correct that
after IL has stood for n few hours there will