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PHOSPHATE BAKING POWDERS.— Continued. 



objectionable chemical preservatives and coal-tar dyes, jelly is often 

 adulterated with foreign gelatinous matter (starch paste, gelatine, 

 etc.) ; sweetening materials (glucose, saccharine, etc.) ; artificial 

 flavors; and fruit acids (citric and tartaric acids). 



Artificial flavors used in imitation jellies and other fruit products 

 are prepared from chemicals. They have a peculiar taste and odor 

 and are unwholesome. Properly prepared pure fruit products are 

 wholesome and nourishing, but products prepared from artificial 

 flavoring, coloring, and chemical preservatives are necessarily more 

 or less deleterious to health and should not be used as food. 



Twelve samples of jelly were examined and only two (Nos. 6490a 

 and 6494a) were found to contain benzoate, a chemical preservative. 



