The morning call., 1892-01-21
AMMONIA DOES NOT LEAVE THE
BREAD.

This Is Proven by Actual Tests in
Baking-No sophistry Required.
The fact that scientific and medical men aud
State legislatures have not hesHated TO talk
about the subject has challenged tie attention
Of he public 10 the discussion about the effect
of ammonia and alum IN food products
Aside from the claims OF rival companies
which have to deal with this question there re-
main a few truths on which people can build
their own conclusion One Of tie claims made
IS that ammonia when used In baking powder
put into bread disappears IN the baking OF the
bread. To be scientific, The claim is made that
ammonia is a volatile salt Medical men Of re-
pu e, chemists Of uuQuestlonable standing and
practical business men who have gwen the mat
ter unbiased Investigation say such is not the
case. The opinions Of these gentlemen have
been printed. The question was Of sufficient i'm
pOrtance 10 warrant some Of The legislatures Of
the country 20 take II up and pass upon L. Be-
fore action was taken on the matter lie com
mittees IN charge card me chemists before
them and tests were mad. IN the State OF
Minnesota, for example. there appeared before
the senate committee lh chalge OF Tue luVesil-
gallon Charles W. Drew, Pm 3. NJ. D., analytl-
ca aud consulting che mist Of Minneapolis; DR..
w. =. Hermann, chemist OF the State Dairy and
Food Commission Of the State OF Minnesota, and
Professor James A. Dodge, Professor of Chem
istTy al the University Of Minnesota. As the
question was, as ammonia a volatile salt?" II
was necessary 10 use IN the test such baking
powders as are acknowledged to contain ammo.
Dia. he list included Andrews Pearl Baking
fOWdeI, 900 Acme Baking powder and
Royal Baking Powder. DR.. Drew found in each
a cream Of tartar powder containing ammonia,
He also found To The Forest CIV Bakiug Pow.
der an alum pOwd containing ammonia.
alum, and in White Rose Baking Powder
an a.um-IhOsUhate cont lining ammOnia-alum
lie stated TO the committee me following en-.
phatlc opinion; would not recommend the
use OF such powders 10 my patients. nor would |
use them In my own family" Iuis opinion re-
fer ed 70 tie powders which had been used IN
% n = he IN n
who had made a personal test IN addition was to
the same effect. lie went further, and said that
IN the samples Of bread made from tie Royal and
Rising sun ammonia could even he detected in
tie samples OF bread broken when hot by the
smell, uumistakabie evidence Of The presence Of
ammonia. Professor Dodge made six tests and
found that the Rising sun, the Royal Woods
Acme and Andrews Pearl baking powders con.
aimed ammonia, and that tile Forest City aud
tue White Rose contained ammOnia-alum, aud
found ammonia 10 each Of the six samples Of
bread made from the powders Damed. Tie tests
were suflclent TO warrant The committee. com
posed or business and Intelligent men, 10 TecOm-
mend The passage Of a bill which would require
The mauufactu' crs OF such baking powders as
contain alum and ammonia 10 have The fact
printed on IN uackage offered to the public, so
that the consumers could not be deceived.
very significant hint that ammonia and alum are
not, when taken into the stomach, conducive 10
health.
Tie Legislature Of New York followed the
lead Oh such an enactment, and the Illinois
Legislature discussed tie question before their
adjournment in the spring OF 1891. The cues
ton Is now before the Legislature Of Georgia
In Minnesota, when the question was first stated,
the leading merchants OF the two cities ST. Paul
and Minneapolis, who deal In food produces adj
dressed communication 10 the Legislature,
asking II TO pass the bill compelling manufactur-
ers VINO make goods containing food adutera-
tiOns 10 label cans containing the sans
The petitioners echoed the sentiment OF the
public IN th Use OF tn following words: LAS
general dealers IN food products and being nee
essarily without the skilled Information 10 know
OF The composition OF special articles like baking
powders ana at all times OF being DESTROYS OF
selling pure articles OF food we believe tile in
formation such as IS suggested by the proposed
bill, /. g., that The cans be plainly labeled as TO
the nature OF their contents, is most righteous
and just; the consumer can thereby purchase
intelligenlly."
THIS petition was signed by the following rep
reseniatYe houses. which are as high IN their
commercial integrity as the representative
houses Of any city 10 the country:
YerIa Bros. & Co. Levin Bros
Andrew ScEoCh Gro. Co. Michaud Bros
Chas r. Knauft j. WAGNER
Henry DamcrOger. A. r. McPhai.
j. &. HOnigaD & son. John Fiulay.
G. i. Rape a Co. y. j. Schmitz
T. f. birmingham Mcintosh & Clark
Bros r. L. HoltephOif
Geo. T. Hess. Erickson s. EKbald.
}. Simmer. J.. A. Sauer.
Knetp a Larson. VIM. SchOrnstein.
Larsen a Skor. VIM. Se9nach.
Lundquist & Johnson II. Hansen.
Anderson Bros. Terauce McGoYern,
STEINER Bros, Kaufman Joseph Armbruster.
q Co. Herman ThielGs.
II. A. Rundquist. Asswins d Walker
A. hOrmann William Holmes.