The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-14
CANNING AND PRESERVING.
The Adu1terated Goods Which Are on
tho Market.

TEF
tho Market.
This is the time of year whom the care
full housekeeper is busy preparing fruit,
jellies, jams n preserves for winter
use. The quality and flavor of these
home made products are SO superior to
those goods which are placed upon the
market that she feels amply repaid for
the labor and trouble necessary in the
operation. But aside from the fact t hat
the flavor is better, is the fact that they
are pure, which cannot be said OF very
many of the brands which are put up for
sale.
In his last report the State Dairy Com
missioner states that III OF 1872 samples
examined, 159 were found TO be adulter-
ated and only SO pure. OF red currants
only 6 out of II brands were pure, n "a
out of IS brands of raspberries were adul-
terated, and 81 out of 25 brands Of straw
berries were adulterated.
The following names appeared OF the
labels of the adulterated articles:-J. o.
Schimmel Preserving Company; Orchard
Preserve Works; Greenwich Packing
Company; New Jersey Preserving Com
pany; Erie Preserving Company; Max
Ans; f. & ]. Heinz Empire State Pre-
es5Hlag PaeRins company Sa5fase Dr JoaspGi
Cambell & Company; P. J. Ritter Pre-
serving Company; G. Vollers, and Charles
Israel & Brother.
At the time the investigation of the
fruit, jams and jellies sold in this State
was begun it was Thought that no adul-
teration would be detected, for the cost OF
fruit and can sugar was so low that little
incentive for sophistication appeared TO
exist. But before the work had advanced
far it was ascertained hat the greater
portion of the cheap articles were not
only adulterated, but many were devoid
of any of the fruit mentioned on the
label.
1t is an u~ndisputed fact that enormous
quantities of an article called jelly, but
which is not jelly, are sold in this and
other markets. offered the trade by job
bers' and manufacturers agents at from
three to foul cents per pound.
Some time g a number OF manufac-
turers of cheap jellies formed the Amer
lean Preservers' Association, and by the
establishment OF this trust all ba fifteen
Ct the works which joined the association
were closed.
Experienced jelly makers say that a
pure fruit jelly canine be made for less
than five and a half to six cents per
pound, and even at that price is very poor
goods. A good jelly can, however, be
made to retail at ten or fifteen cents per
pound.
The amount of this fraudulent material
manufactured and sold in this country
may be estimated when it is known that
one manufacturer in Philadelphia sold
| thirty-nine tons in one week, while an
other factory delivered one thousand tons
in six months. AS there are about fifty
| factories engaged in this business the
| quantity of fruit jam and jelly sold in the
course of the year may be roughly con-
jectured.
Pure fruit jelly may be defined as a
| substance made of fruit juice and cane
or beet-root sugar without the addition OF
any other material. Pure fruit jam is
that substance made OF the fruit crushed
and properly treated with cane or beet
root sugar.
In the manufacture of fraudulent jel-
lies and jams, apple pomace. apple juice,
starch, glue, gelatine and Japanese ISM
glass are used TO give substance to the
article; for fiavoring, apple, inferior or
spoiled fruit juices, and the compound
others and acetic acid are used, while the
coloring is impaired by the use OF the fol
lowing analine d~yes;-Eosine, fuchsine.
bismark brown, garnet red and the yari-
GUS carmines.
A jelly or jam may be made of pure
| fruit and sugar, yet u mixture of several
kinds Of fruit. The variety is put up by
! some packers who have large quantities
! of inferior articles that they do not wish
| pack under first class tables. 1t is per-
fectly pure and healthful inc contains no
injurious material, the only deception
being in the am on the label-Stote
| Gazette.