page_title: Crescent Foods
section_title: Mapleine
hierarchical_section_title: Crescent Foods / Earliest history / Mapleine
caption_attribution_description: English: 1909 Crescent Mfg. Co. advertisement for Mapleine artificial maple flavoring
context_page_description: Crescent Foods, Inc., was a Seattle, Washington, spice and flavorings company founded in 1883 that was bought by McCormick & Company in 1989.
context_section_description: Crescent's best known product was Mapleine, an imitation maple flavoring that became popular during the Great Depression. Crescent had introduced Mapleine at the Puyallup Fair in 1908, and exhibited it prominently at the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific (AYP) Exposition.  A Coast magazine issue promoting Seattle for the AYP included an article by and about Crescent boasting that it had "spread the fame of Seattle throughout the Western hemisphere" and "made Seattle famous—and blessed among millions of lovers of maple sweets."
  An early enforcement action of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act in 1909 concerned a shipment of Mapleine confiscated in Chicago.  The case was "United States of America v. Three Hundred Cases of Crescent Mapleine" in which it was found that the product was misleadingly labeled to represent actual maple extract. The case was cited as a precedent for the United States Supreme Court 1916 decision in United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola.
caption: 1909 advertisement for Mapleine
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