Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — IMPORTANT FOOD TESTS. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT FOOD TESTS.

How to Produce More Economical and Healthful Articles for the Table. The official food analyses by the United States and Canadian governments have baen staditd with interest. The United States Government report 1 ives t .e names of eighteen well-known baking powders, so eof them advertised as ure cceam-of-tartar powders, which contain a.um. The report shows the Royal to be a pure cream-of-tarta barinr powder, the highest in sire gth. evolving 160.t> cubic inches of leavening gas ■ er single ounce of powder. There were eight other brands of cream-of-tartar . owder=> tested, and their avei age strength was 111.0 cubic inches of gas per ounce of owder. ———— ——— The Canadian government investigations were of a still larger n.imber of powders. The oyal . aking Powder was here a so shown the purest and h ghest in strength containing fortyfive p.:r cent, more leavening gas per ounce than tae average of all the other cream-of-tartar powders. These figures are very instructive to the practi. a: houseKee er. They indicate that the Royal Baking Powder goes more than 311'per cent, further in use than the others or is one-third more economical, t till more important than this, however, they prove this popu ar article has been brought to the highest degree of purity—f rto it super ative purity this superiority in strength is due—and consequently that by its use we may be insured the purest and most wholesome f od. The powders of lower stren th are found to have large amoints of imp ,r» itie in the food. This fact is emphasized by the report of the < hio State Food Commissioner, who, while finding the Royal ; Tactically j ure. found no other powder to contain less than 10 per cent, oi inert or foreign matter. The rtati tics how that there is used in the manufacture < f the Loyal Baking Powder more than half of all the cream-of-tartar con,i med in the United States for all pur oses. The wonder? 1 ale thus indicated for the Royal Baking Powder —greater than that of all other baking powders combined —is erha s even a ni her eviden e than that already quoted of the su eriority of this article, and of its indispensableness to modern cookery.