Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — A Land of Adulterations. [ARTICLE]

A Land of Adulterations.

Austria is a country where one’s food needs to be tested in order to avoid adulteration. At the laboratory in Venice, where food is analyzed for nothing, a loaf of bread was found to Consist largely of the pulverized bark of trees, sawdust and chaff; ground pepper was found to be mixed with wood ashes; cinnamon was colored with ochre, and a so-called “nutritious 1 coffee" consisted entirely of roast acorns and ehioory.