Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-28

sures accurately enough to determine that ex-
tracts are 10 per cent short in measure.
The people, however, are fast learning, and
will soon to demand generally full
measure and weight, and manufacturers who
fail to meet these demands will find their
trade rapidly diminishing.
CHANGES IN cATsUps.
Catsups have probably changed more in
character during the past three years than any
other product handled in the grocery trade.
at the present time the catsups generally
sold throughout the state free from any
form of chemical preservative, although we
have had numerous instances where these
products have been taken up still containing
eservatives-shipped in, as is claimed by the
jobbers through an oversight.
1t is noticeable in the examinations that
often these products contain-not, as is stated
upon the label, "1-1O of l per cent of Denzo-
ate of soda," but rather Is to rs per cent
or about twice that which is claimed, and fully
three times that which is permissible under
the laws of North Dakota. where the use Of
benzoate of soda is allowed at all.
Preservatives like benzoate of soda are only
permitted I'm this state in bulk CIDER, bulk
mince meat, bulk apple butter, and in cod
fish, properly labeled, from May to October.
ROTTEN AND WASTE MATERIALS IN cATsUP.
One who has carefully studied catsups upon
the market knows that many of the cheaper
products are very inferior, and if he has
made careful investigation he will find that
such catsups are made from a great deal Of
rotten and waste material. 1t is true that the
impression is trying to be created that this
product is produced wholly from sound ma
terial, including cores and skins, but perfectly
healthy. This is not true in many cases, fot
careful study with the microscope will re-
veal the true condition of the catsup and
show the mass of putrefactive material and the
growth of myrelium so abundant that little
else can be SEEM Benzoate of soda is desired
largely for this class of catsups and is used
by the manufacturer to preserve the refuse
product until such time as he desires to work
it into catsup for the market.
ARTIFICIAL coLoR1Ne IN cArsups.
am asked how the beautiful color can be
had in catsup where no coal-tar dyes are added.
1t would seem that some Of the catsups now
an the market contain considerable cottonseed
oil and that color is extracted by this means
from paprika, which gives the entire mass
a much brighter red color. Labels which pre-
tend to show the ingredients which have enter
ed into the composition of the catsup should
also show the presence of the oil, if they
would truthfully label the product.
PURE CIDER v1NEiAR.
In the judgment of the writer, many of the
vinegars now on the market sold as cider VINE
gar are not in reality entitled to be so classed.
1t is true that they are, in part at least, the
product of apples. but it does not show that
they are necessarily pure cider vinegar and it
will be necessary to find a means for determin-
ing just what the standard shall be for this
class of product.
rMPuR1rY IN CANNED GOODS.
Again, of late, great deal is being said
with regard to canned goods and one might
gain the impression that canned goods had al
ways been above suspicion that their name
had been injured, maliciously or otherwise.
ELet me say at the start that in the judgment
of the writer canned goods, properly put up.
are a perfectly healthy article Of food, and
probably the writer's family is as large con-
sumer of these products as the average family,
| and does so knowing the good qualities which:
thew possess.
! On the other hand, one who has been in
food work for the past six years knows well
that the time was when it was practically I'm
possible to buy. in the state of North Dakota
! and probably In other states - wen, . tansle
can of corn that had not been bleached by
the use of supplies. Now. supplies in corn
are no less harmful than they are in meats,
and this corn, with its favor largely destroy
ed, was then sweetened with saccharin (coal
tar cugar). Both Of these agents act as a