Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Adulteration in Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Adulteration in Coffee.

“Coffee,” says Dr. Winslow Anderson, of San Francisco, “now one of the most universally used of all beverages, excepting, perhaps, tea and beer, is usually abominably adulterated. It would seem difficult to imitate coffee, but it is not. . “A very fair cup of coffee is made from black walnut dust, caramel and roasted and brown horse liver. This mixture has been ascertained by chemical analysis to be in extensive use. Ground coffee and hotel decoctions often contain roasted and ground peas, beans, potatoes, carrots, corn, rye and oak bark, while chicory is seldom absent. “This chicory, by the way, is itself adulterated by roasted wheat, rye, beans, acorns, carrojts, parsnips, beet root, baked livers, Venetian red, colored earths, oak bark, tan and sawdust.” An uncut diamond looks very much like a bit of the best gum arable.