The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-09-26
EDITORIAL PAGE
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
By JOSEPHINE SCHUYLER)
Calvin Seryice)
More Half-Truths In Diet
Ice Cream


State Commissioner of Agriculture
Peter Ten Eyck, that good ice
cream is a health food. 1t is
safeguard against many deficien-
cies and undernourishments".. But
Commissioner Ten Eyck fails to
say what he means by good. He
dare not say what he means be-
cause If he did all the great sugar,
ice cream, candy and other artifi-
clay food concerns would be down
on his neck, Many mothers read
ing his vague and enthusiastic ap-
prevail of ice will let her little ones
indulge freely in this product,
whether sold on the street, theatre,
or in the school. It's all ice
cream, isn't it? There's as much
difference, between even the most
inferior homemade ice cream, and
the commercial product as bet
ween day and night. Here's what
Consumers Research thinks of the
commercial kind: Commercial ice
cream is uncontrolled by food
laws. 1t is made with dried skim
milk, dried egg white, artificial
flavor, corn sugar, and almost
everything but good fresh cream,
fruit and eggs. 1t nearly always
contains gelatine or gum thicken-
er remember how it sticks to the
mouth?) This gelatine and gum
thickener especially favors germ
growth in a mixture already
dangerous culture medium for bac-
terra The gelatine and gum faci-
ilitates the beating into the mix
ture of a great quantity of air so
as to double the volume. The con-
sumner (sucker) pays for the air
and blithely eats air, germs, water,
gelatine, chemical flavors and col
ors, cheap sugar, skim milk and
elderly eggs and thinks he's hav-
ing a good, healthy time. Now,
imagine giving this germ-laden
mess to children There's no law
against it, and fewe to warn us.
Why? Because our food laws
were written to protect Big Bust
ness and not the consumer.
"Fresh" lee Cream
Commercial ice cream is often
month old before it is sold.
Much ice cream is allowed to melt
and is refrozen; this is particularly
dangerous for children. Summer
complaint among young children,
prolonged vomiting and loose bow
els can probably be traced to this
contaminated source of milk A
mother will be extremely careful Of
her child's daily drinking milk and
turn right around and let it eat
commercial ice cream! But how can
she know the danger? How indeed
when big newspapers and maya
ZINES don't dare tell her.
Consumers Research purchas-
ed 20 samples of ice cream at vary
ing drug stores, candy shops and
cafeterias in New York City. 1t
found thirty-five per cent of it
contained concentration of colon
bacteria two or three times high
er than is considered safe for a
bathing beach! Several of the
high priced creams were found to
be as full of dangerous, disease
building bacteria as the cheapest
Try this in your freezer: Juice
OF four oranges, enough honey to
flavor to your taste, half pint
heavy cream Mix oranges and
honey, whip cream and pour juice
into it slowly. This will serve
four.
Soft Drinks Hard On You
Twelve billion bottles of soda
water yearly are sold here. 1t
contains no fruit juices, corn sy-
rup and artificial coloring. Fruit
flavors can he made i'm the labora-
tory much cheaper than the real
article. Corn syrup (even though
your physician unwittingly pres
cribed it to you for infant feeding)
contains dextrins i'm large amounts
which experiments on animals have
found to be very bad for the ALI
mentary tract. 1t is just as safe
70 feed YOUR children gin as soda
ron. r. y,u doubt it read "Pard-
.-rs ir P1H0der". "100,000.000 Gut
ueg p'as' and Consumer Research
Bulletins.
The Broken staff Of Life
How often mothers are told to
give the young ones their daily
dread and butter. How nice and
respectable the phrase sounds.
But alas! even the most venerable
traditions have to be re-examined
these days. When you made your
own bread from freshly ground
homegrown grain, and used the
whole product (before the flour
millers seduced you into believing
i'm the virtue Of bleaching), then
perhaps. bread deserved its literary
honors But not any more. Re
cent investigation found that even
i'm North Dakota the home of
wheat. little if any true whole
wheat bread is being sold. The APP
pearance Of whole wheat is achiev-
ed by artificial coloring or molas-
ses.
Egg and milk powders or skim
milk and frozen eggs are in gener-
al use in bakeries. Substitutes are