Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — The Greatest Adulterant. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Adulterant.

Glucose, it appears, is the greatest of all adulterants. It is used for making cheap candy, sugars, .jellies and syrups. Apple sauce is pumpkin boiled in cider. It is said that cheap confectionery and liquors are the articles most injuriously adulterated. Candy commonly contains much fusel oil and other poisons. Strawberry ice cream—a plate of it—often contains almost more fusel oil than five glasses of poor whisky. It is colored with red aniline dye. Licorice drops are usually made out of candy factory sweepings. Wine is frequently nothing but water with a percentage of crude alcohol from grain or the refuse of beef refineries, colored with burnt sugar, flavored with oil of cognac and given an agreeable woody taste with a little catechu.