Adulterated Foods and Olive Oil
DR. WILEY, chief chemist of the Agricultural Department of the United States, declares that “more Vermont maple sugar is made every year in Davenport, Iowa, from cheap yellow sugar, flavored with vegetable extracts, than can be produced from all the maple trees in the whole State of Vermont.” He also states that “currant jelly is manufactured from the cores and parings of apples, utilized after they have been evaporated: glucose, sugar, a vegetable acid, and some coloring and flavoring matter complete the delicacy.” And again, “Nearly all the ‘pure olive oil’ imported to this country is cotton-seed oil made in the Southern States, sent abroad, and there refined, and returned to us as the pure product of the Mediterranean olive!”