Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-09-16
BEEF CONSUMERS
Persistence Of Taste 40 q Test OF In.
dIuestjbjIity.

vor of an article OF food for some time
after II has been taken into the stom.
ach Is always an indication that IL is
not being properly digested. We
may thus detect. he says, "embalmed'
canned goods. meat that has grown
old in cold-storage, adulteTatcd ex.
tracts. etc. He says
"A short time since a very nice cake
appeared on the supper table of a
certain family. IL 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 mean that for some reason
another the cake had disagreed with
them and the prominent flavor in Z.
returned to the mouth and made itself
d~isagreeably manifest.
I'VE 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 II
was q sort similar TO the kind which
was well 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
ticle of the oil of lemon should of
fend ever the digestive faculties of
powerful stomachs and cause those
who eat IL TO taste II.
THE FIRST tin of tomatoes from the
store was opened a few nights since.
The verdict from several of the fam
lily. pronounced from one-half to an
hour and n half after the meal, was
I taste it, This family had been &c
customed to eating tomato. had
thrived on II, had had no trouble with
Il. but the first a from the grocery
the trouble made itself felt with sew
sTal members Of the household and
undoubtedly existed. II not felt, IN the
digestion of the remaining members.
What was the trouble? IL was that
those tomatoes were 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 salicyllc acid
or sallcylic and sulfurous 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 %allmentary qualities
OF every fruit or vegetable. Food
products In which such p~rcservatives
30 NNnAI - N.As AVIs a..IulYaal
against the depredations of the fer
mentative microbes OF the outer air
but equally well embalmed and pre-
served against the digestive juices of
the stomach. 1t is an utter waste U
effort for the digestive organs to at
tempt to extract alimentation from
ambalmed fruits and vegetables.
"a recent report OF the North Caro-
lima experiment station showed that
put of one hundred samples OF canned
fruit examined, every n was fount
70 contain socalled food p~reservatives.
Sixty per cent OF canned vegetables
we're found to contain personalities
rhe effects on the system of the long.
continued administration OF these pre-.
'ervatives. wen 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. If the general pub
lc were made aware of the danger
urking under the brightly colored la
1els, the falling off In the consump
ion. he says, would be so great tina,
manufacturers in self.protection would
le compelled to print on their labels
No p~reservatives used" and live up
% the statement. But there Is an.
other method of food preservation
whose u~ndesirability Is even less
well known. Says DR.. C~amberwell:
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 OF
tho great storage ware house had pre-.
vented what Is ordinarily known as
1ecompositicn. Nevertheless the ap
pearance OF these turkeys vas radio.
ally different from the appearance of
when these turkeys went into the
warehouse. No one could look at them
without believing what every physlc
a m knows TO be the fact. that there
had been degeneration of the tissues
and "A loss of the food elements which
freshly killed meat contain.
"a person making a hearty meal
from turkey kept in a storage rare
house from December to June would
have occasion, in all probability, &c
cry for hours afterwards 4 taste It,
II he did not taste II he would be pun
ished for his indiscretion by a serious
bowel trouble, II not by u worse dis
order.
"a man trying TO live on meat kep,
for a long time In cold storage woult
simply starve TO death or die of bloot
poisoning.
"The staple supply Of the family
table can be in the main selected from
fruits and vegetables In their natura
state, from meats freshly killed, anI
allied under hygienic surroundings
from cereals and nut products o
known purity. And we can only wlsl
Tor that housewife who fails 20 recoe
niZe and avoid the dangers and evil
outlined in this article an a~ggravate,
furm OF the disorder recognized by GU
friend Of the beginning, when she sal
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