Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-04
GELATIN OUTPUT
IN BIC INCREASE
1000, 900 Pounds Produced
in u. S. This Year-LoWer
Sugar Prices Likely:
BY j. c. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 4-When a
youngster dashes home from school
demanding to know What are we GO
Ing have for dessert?" he can be
pretty sure that it will be gelatine
in some form or another. whether his
mother knows it or not. Consump
ton of gelatin in American homes
has doubled in the past ten years and
the industry is growing more rapidly
than ever. 1t is estimated that more
than 100000 pounds Will he pro-
duced in the United States this year,
while imports will probably run more
than 100000 pounds.
The use of gelatin for desserts,
jellles and candies has been known to
he American housewife for years and
accounts for large portion of the
output; but manufacturers say the
public is just beginning to find out
the additional uses of this product
Its use in ice cream has had tremen-
growth in the last year owing to in
vestigations conducted at the Mellon
institute of the University of Pitts
burgh. These have shown that the
use Of the gelatin improves the food
and diatetic value of ice cream as
well as making it smoother and more
velvety and stabilizing the mixture.
Wider Uses Predicted.
Manufacturers have taken up its
use, but Joseph II. Cohen, chairman
of the educational section of the Edi-
BILE Gelatin Manufacturers Associa-
ton, is confident that when consum-
ers realize that ice cream so prepared
is not only pleasant to the taste but
has an additional food value, its use
hprnma q Al in
cream made at home.
The candy and confectionery trade
is increasing its use Of the product
in marshmallows. and confectionery
foams as an emulsifying agent and in
taffies. kisses and cream Centers to
prevent disintegration of the mixture.
On cakes il gives a gloss to icings
and provides stability to meringues.
The product is prepared from the
white connective tissue in the skin
and bones of food animals under
strict Government regulation. and
when housewife bOils a knuckIe
bone for soup she is producing gela-
tin on small scale.
Lower Sugar Prices.
AS to one of the other principal in
gradients in sweets and desserts, su-
gar, many expert judges feel that the
coming year will see lower prices.
They declare present prices for raw
sugars cannot be maintained, in view
OF the anticipated record increase in
world production. The latest esti-
mate by Willett & Gray of the 1924
20 output over that of the previous
crop years is placed at 2,3S3,312 tons.
There is more cane in Cuba today
than ever before. Its cutting and
grinding have been delayed by wet
rainy weather. which held down sugar
content and made roads impassa bl e
for hauling, but some centrals are
now cutting cane and this soon will
be on the market. In the meantime
prices have been stabilized by the
marketing of domestic beet sugars
and the arrival of full duty sugars
from foreign countries.
Heavy Foreign Arrivals.
The latter are coming in freely from
Brazil, Peru. Java and Central
America. Even Mexico is shipping
some sugar into the Western section
of this country. and if the mills of
the State of Morelos get back to pro-
duction Mexican sugar will become a
decided factor. For years Emliano
Zapata held that state and dismantled
the mills TO get metal and machinery
for the use of his army. Germany is
sending beet sugar to this country
and American sugar already exported
to Europe is being shipped back here
because of the plentiful supplies
available for the European market
and the high prices obtaining here.
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