Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-09-13
aEEE CONSUMERS.
Persistence Of Taste as a Test Of In
dIuestjbIIity.

IL Is hcstTltu ny III n. " 1diuDts
will, in the Healthy Home for August,
that the recurrence of the peculiar fla
vor Of an article of food for some timo
after IL has been taken into the stom.
ach is always an indication that IL ~
not being properly digested. We
may thus detect, he says. "embalmed'
canned goods. meat that has grown
old in c~old-storage, ~adulterated ex.
tracts, etc. He says:
"A short time since a very nice cake
appeared on the supper table of a
certain family. II was favored with
lemon extract and in texture and pal
atability IL met the favor OF all who
tested IL. A little while after eating
however, several began to complain
that they tasted the lemon. This
simply meant that for some reason
another the cake had disagreed with
them and the prominent flavor in q
returned to the mouth and made itself
disagreeably manifest.
1--WE do not know exactly what par
%ticular brand of extract of lemon was
used In the case in question, but we
would wager a piece of cake that u
vas n sort similar to the kind which
was we'll advertised by the state board
of health in It's last report. The report
stated that out Of thirteen popular
brands of extract OF lemon not one
contained any oil OF lemon and most
OF them were colored with aniline
dyes and were deficient in alcohol
strength.
ut is not n bit surprising that ex
tract Of lemon maze from powerful
chemicals and containing not n par
ticlc of the oil of lemon should of
fend ven the digestive faculties of
powerful stomachs and cause those
who eat IL to taste IL.
"The first tin OF tomatoes from the
store was opened n few nights since.
The verdict from several of the fam
lily, pronounced from one-half to an
hour and a half after the meal, was
1 taste it. This family had been nc
customed to eating tomato. had
thrived On II. had had no trouble with
II. but the first can from the grocery
the trouble made itself felt with sew
eral members of the household and
undoubtedly existed, II not felt, In the
digestion of the remaining members.
What was the trouble? 1t was that
those tomatoes we're not preserved by
heat alone and by the exclusion OF air
which Is the right method for properly
canned fruit and vegetables of every
kind. but were also preserved by the
addition of a portion Of salicylic acid
or salicylic and s~ulfurous acid com.
bined, or worse yet, by formaldehyd
all of which substances prevent de.
composition and preserve the outward
form Of the organic substance which
II Is intended to preserve, but which
will destroy the ~alimentary qualities
OF every fruit or vegetable. Food
products In which such preservatives
are used are not only ombalmed
against the depredations of the fer
mentative microbes of the outer air
but equally well ombalmed and pre-
served against the digestive juices of
the stomach. II is an utter waste u.
effort for the digestive organs to at
tempt to extract Authorization from
rmbalmed fruits and vegetables.
"A recent report of the North Caro-
lima experiment station showed that
out OF one hundred samples of canned
fruit examined, every one was fount
TO contain socalled food p~reservatives.
Sixty per cent of canned vegetables
we're found to contain personalities
The effects on the system of the long.
continued administration of these pre-.
3ervatives, even in small quantities,
must simply be an entire wreck OF the
digestive functions"
The only safe course under present
| circumstances. the writer believes. is
whenever possible. to reject canned
goods Of all kinds. II the general pub
lc were made aware of the danger
urking under the brightly colored la
lels. the falling off in the consump
ion, he says, would be so great tina,
manufacturers In self-protection would
De compelled to print on their labels
NO personalities used" and live NJ
to the statement. But there is an
other method of food preservation
whose undesirability is even less
we'll known. Says DR.. Camberwell:
walking along n of the market
streets Of a great city. the writer OBJ
served some turkeys which had Just
been taken from the cold storage ware
house. having been there since the
previous December. Their appearance
was so interesting that stopped there
a moment to watch them. II was un
deniable that the low temperature o.
the great storage ware house had pre-
vented what is ordinarily known a.
decomposition. Nevertheless the ap
pearance Of these turkeys was radio
ally different from the appearance ~
when these turkeys went into tn,
warehouse. No one could look at then
without believing what every physic
ian knows to be the fact, that ther,
had been degeneration of the tissues
and a loss of the food elements which
freshly killed meat contain.
"a person making a hearty mea
from turkey kept in a storage ware
house from December TO June woul,
lave occasion, in all probability, Il
cry for hours afterwards I taste II.
If he did not taste II he would be pun
!shed for his indiscretion by a serious
bowel trouble, II not by a worse dis
order.
~ mar trying to live on meat keT
for a long time in cold storage woult
simply starve to death or die Of bloc,
poisoning.
The staple supply Of the famil.
liable can be In the main selected from
fruits and vegetables I'm their natura
state, from meats freshly killed. an
killed under hygienic surroundings
from cereals and nut products O
known purity. And we can only wis
FOR that housewife who fails to recOl
nize and avoid the dangers and evil
outlined in this article an %aggravate
form of the disorder recognized by on
friend Of the beginning. when she sal
| taste it, The Literary Digest.
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Henry Braydon, Harris. North Ca
lino, says: Il took medicine 20 year
for asthma but one bottle of One Mil
ute Cough Cure did me more goo
than anything else during that time
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