Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Adulterated Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Adulterated Coffee.

The difference in quality between the coffee imported into this country and that sold is remarkable. The New York Sun says that of thirty-four samples of ground coffee lately analyzed in that city thirty-one were adulterated, more, or less, with chioory. Boast corn was in twelve, and beans and potato flour in one. Chicory itself is often adulterated as coffee. Horse chestnuts, acorns, wheat, red earth, carrots, parsnips, oak bark, tan, mahogany sawdust and Venetian red enter frequently into the composition. A company which desiccates cocoanuts in New York finds a market for its shells at the coffeemills, which grind and mix them with coffee. Peanuts and burnt sugar are also used for adulteration, and unground coffee is by no means exempt from foreign particles.