Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-14
A DYSPEPTiC GRuMBLER.
Wholesale Adulteration OF Food and
Drink the Cause OF Dyspepsia m

Wholesale Adulteration of Food and
Drink the Cause of Dyspepsia m
America.
.-Oh. I'm used up with the dyspepsia,
declared a sour-visaged. discontented-
looking man to an acquaintance as he
leaned against bar chewing a nutri-
tious toothpick. I'm only one Of
thousands" he added, with heavy
sigh, who have been made dyspeptics
IN America by the authorizations of
food. No use to talk climate or cook
cry to me. 1t is the adulteration of
food that creates dyspepsia. Why,
bless you. the American cooking is on
| the average the best in the world. but
| it is almost impossible to get anything
| pure to cook.
Alum is mixed with yeast powder,
| baking powders are adulterated with
| chalk and sugar, strip and honey are
| extensively doctored. The first three
/ are adulterated with glucose. which is
| manufactured by treating starch or
woody fiber with sulphuric acid.
| 1t is never advertised - glucose
isn't-I can tell you. and it isn't easy
| to find. A large dealer told me the
| other day that he didn't believe he'd
| had any genuine moiasses in his store
| for years. l never buy any honey I'M
/ less / can get it from an intimate
friend. MIX is weakened with water
and eolored with preparation made
/ in the east. 1t is not generally known.
| either. but it IS fact that the milk of
farrow COWS is unfit for food. being
| filed with an effete eXeretory matter.
| And butter-faugh!-it is not only
adulterated but eounterfeited. Fat
cheese is made from skimmed-milk
mixed with lard and tallow so skill
fully as to DEFY detection. / was at
an exhib of butter and cheese in tho
State of New York awhile ago where
| the first prize was awarded to cheese
which the makers. with pride-mind
| YOU. with prde-afterward affirmed to
be manufactured article.
do YOU know what gluten meal is?
Mop Well, YOU see that advertisement,
but YOU don't see glucose 1t is
| product incident to the manufacture of
| glucose. Fine fruit flavors-what do
you think they are largely made from?
All, the chemist has wonderful re-
sources. They are made to a great
| extent from rotten cheese, fusel Oil.
sulphuric acid. ether, and other things
quite as injurious to the delicate lin
ings of the stomach. Many of the
saltwater sirups, CONNECTIONS and jel-
lies are favored with such stuff. OF
| course few persons use genuine fruit
flavors. The sourness of lemon strip
and lime juice is strengthened with
sulphurc acid. Candy is composed
largely of glucose and flour. Mighty
little pure sugar goes into it. Manu-
facturers claim the substitute which is
made from corn is not Objectionable.
Candy is adulterated with various sub
stances. Sometimes terra alba is used.
and the coloring matter is often highly
Objectionable.
Tea is adulterated with willow. oak,
birch elm, and other leaves. and with
spent tea leaves; also with poisonous
eolorings. Ground coffee sold in pack
ages is often quite acounterfeit. Among
the other coffee authorizations, besides
the old standby chicory. are dried
liver. beans, pease, all kinds of grain,
tan bark and sawdust. Spices are
mixed largely with inert substances,
| and then injurious matter has to be
added to give them fictitious strength,
.Thrtv-two deadly poisons are
known to be used in the adulteration
of wines, and whisky is even treated
worse. The popular lager beer is
! aduIterated also to an alarming ex-
tent, for it is drunk freely by SO MANY
under the belief that it is healthful and
can not be meddled with as are alcoholic
beverages. Even drugs-the very.
drugs used for adulterations-are them
selves adulterated. Deadly poisons are
adulterated; Paris green, for instance.
| being one.
1T is impossible to estimate the
amount of poison people take into their
system daily, ana it's no wonder some
/ of us have wrecked constitutions,
concluded the grumbler, as he finished
| his toothpick and sauntered out, wear
ing an expression of enmity to all the
| world. Chicago Meas.