Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-04-25
FACTS FOR CANDY EATERS.
RESULTS OF A PHYSICIANS CARE
Full INVESTIGATION.

terated-Eat 1T just After Meals.
Owing to limited resources, savage man
was content to assauge the cravings OF his
sweet tooth with licoric root and myrrh. But
things have changed since then, and man,
somewhat less savage, sucks the minted
candy stick or melts in his mouth the creamy
French corrections.
The candies of today are made of five main
imgredients-cane sugar, glucose, gum and
coloring and favoring matters. Other sub
stances are often added, as starch, which.
though often considered as an adulteration.
should be looked upon as a legitimate in
gredient. If all these substances ase pure
and good the CONNECTION manufactured there
from cannot be otherwise than wholesome
and nutritious. The sugar, glucose and
starch are fat forming, and heat producing
principles are present in many of our dietary
staples This fact should not be lost sight of
by consumers of candy Being foods, the
various candies should never be eaten be
tween meals, as they are equivalent to
lunch, and everyone is aware of the deleteri
GUS effect of constant lunching The proper
time for all kinds of confectionery is as
dessert to the regular meals. Used in this
way they are often decidedly beneficial in in
ducing one to stop partaking of the more
bulky elements of the meals before the
stomach becomes overloaded.
BETTER THAN MINcE PIE.
They offer thus a nutritious, digestible des
sert of little bulk, a dessert which, by all the
laws of nature and humanity, ought to sub
stitute for all time that indigestible Amerl
can Observation-Disclosures pie. Good, pure
candy, eaten in moderate quantity as des
sert to meal, even to every meal, never hurts
any one; and such certainly is the logical, ra
tional way to eat IL. But children must
have something to keep them quiet, and ladies
With nothing to do must have something to
amuse themselves; and further blunted tastes
must have something exceedingly sweet to
tickle faded palutes-for these reasons it is
likely that candy consumers will go on eating
their dozen and one lunches a day, in spite OF
all their physician may say to the contrary
Yet it is an indisputable fact that no ordi
nary stomach can do its work quietly and
well if it is required to digest more than three
meals per day, or if it receives within it any
thing other than water between those three
meals. True, there are people who are al
ways eating and lunchng, consuming candie
and cakes by the pound, who yet seem healthy
and well; but it is doubtful if these people
ever eat meal with relish; and it is certain
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them and induce dire repentance.
Practically, the best way to give confection
cry to children is to allow them, after each
meal, such a quantity of candy as they will
be likely to eat within a half hour or less
Then they should have no more until after
the next meal; and they will not usually want
it if they get it thus regularly.
TAFFY IS BETTER THAN cARAMELs
AS to the kind, it should be such as will not
readily dissolve or ''melt down" Soft OF
creamy candies are apt to be consumed be
fore the palate is satisfied: whereas the harder,
less soluble kinds remain longer in the mouth:
yielding their sweetness for more protracted
period, thus inducing safety, with far less
consumption of candy.
For the same reason, teach your children
to dissolve the candy slowly in their mouths
not to chew it. Partaken of in this way,
and at these times, the harder candies, ii
pure, are not only not injurious, but are in
deed often decidedly beneficial, and for these
reasons: They are easily digested foods, rich
in nutriment; they are an inducement tc
leave the meal short of safety, and they assist
digestion. The latter assertion may be ques-
toned by some, but it is a demonstrate fact
that anything which promotes the flow OF
saliva, at the same time, through the sym
pathetic nervous system, promotes the flow
of the gastric digestive juices. The saliva,
too, that is swallowed with the dissolved
candy may aid digestion somewhat after II
has reached the stomach, though in the light
of late Investigations this is somewhat doubt
ful-long held opinion to the contrary not
withstanding.
Persons inclined to adipose and who are
opposed TO it had better let candy alone, as
;ee fotf cicto
slender people, however, need not gorge them.
selves with candy in the hope of getting stout,
for in them something more than fat forming
food is necessary for an increase in weight.
Children under 2 years of age are better of
without any candy whatever, because theil
nutrition apparatus is not yet equal to the
task of properly assimiating cane sugar and
glucose If not digested both these substances
are exceedingly apt to ferment, and it is the
fermentation of ingesta that is the Nemesis
of babys second summer.
In order to ascertain the purity of the can
dy now manufactured, the writer examined
ffty-one samples of the product, taken from
the general market. In general, it may be
stated that these examinations showeu as
clearly as anything could that it is folly tc
expect to get something for nothing. When
the price of the candy was so low as to pre-
clude the possibility of paying for the making
and the sugar with profit beside, there was
added some cheap foreign substance, usually
pipe clay, to bring the thing up to paying
basis. Especially was this the case with the
very cheap limitations of fine goods. 1t wal
in this class of products, too, that the most
injurious coloring matters were detected.
Here is the list of impurities and adultera
lions found in nineteen of the fifty-one sam
Piles Of candy examined:
Chalk in five samples.
Pipe clay terra ALBA in ten samples.
Bronze copper and zinc alloy in one sam
Pile.
Prussian blue in one sample.
Vermilion in one sample.
Fuchs (aniline red) in three samples.
Chrome yellow chromate Of lead in one
sample.
1t is proper to state here that these fifty-ont
specimens of candy were not fair average
samples, but were such as seemed by their APP
pearance and price to merit suspicion G.
Jackson. NJ. D., in Pttsburg Dispatch.
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