A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpointCraven, J. H. (John Henry)
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A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint
Craven, J. H. (John Henry)
Children -- Diseases; Chiropractic; Sanitation
6—Adding injurious substances for the purpose of preserving the
food.
The Pure Food Act of 1906 makes the following classification in a
statement of the methods which are considered in the adulteration of
foods:
1—“If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
2—“If any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for
the article.
3—“If any valuable constituent or article has been, wholly or in
part, abstracted.
4—“If it is mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in any
manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed.
5—“If it contains any poisons or other added deleterious
ingredient, which may render such articles injurious to health.
6—“If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or
putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal
unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the
product of a dis-eased animal or one that has died otherwise than
by slaughter.”
Rosenau gives the following as the most common adulterations:
“Cottonseed oil is sold as olive oil; honey may contain glucose;
cocoa and chocolate are frequently mixed with both starch and
sugar; coffee is extensively adulterated with caramel, pea-meal,
chickory and saccharose extracts; lard is mixed with cheaper
fats or cotton seed oil; saccharin is substituted for cane sugar;
cereals give bulk and weight to sausages; gypsum or bran is added
to flour; barium sulphate to powdered sugar, flour to turmeric or
corn-meal to mustard; oleomargarine is sold as butter; distilled
and colored vinegar is sold as cider vinegar; ground spices are
adulterated with cocoanut shells, rice, flour and ashes; water,
sugar and tartaric sold as lemonade; wines and liquors are
sometimes adulterated with alum; baryta, caustic lime, salicylic
acid, wood alcohol and hematoxylin, terra alba, kaolin, and various
pigments are sometimes added to candies; gum drops are largely made
with petroleum paraffin products; much of the maple sugar formerly
sold was made from glucose and coloring matter.”
A good illustration of separating the nutritive substances is the
extraction of cream from milk and certain elements from meat. There
is really no objection to abstracting nutritive elements from food
if afterward that food is properly labeled; there is no objection in
taking cream out of milk and selling the skim milk, providing it is
not sold for whole milk.
An illustration of lowering the quality of the food is the addition
of water to milk, of bran to flour, of bariumsulphate to powdered
sugar.
An illustration of substitution would be to substitute saccharine for
sugar, oleomargarine for butter, cottonseed oil for olive oil.
CHAPTER XVII
MILK
MILK
COMPOSITION
MILK AS A FOOD
PROTEINS
CASEIN
LACTALBUMIN
LACTOGLOBULIN
FAT
CREAM
SKIM MILK
BUTTER
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