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nutrition actually pronounced it dangerous to health. Mothers 

 taught their children to wash off the glucose from canned 

 fruit, and to substitute for it cane sugar from the sugar bowl. 

 As a matter of fact, glucose is digested sugar. A lump of 

 cane sugar converts itself into glucose in your stomach within 

 a few minutes after you have eaten it. 



The longer the starch water remains in the digestive tank 

 the higher the percentage of dextrose becomes. Add another 

 thirteen minutes to the time required for the manufacture 

 of glucose, and the tank will yield corn sugar with a 70 to 80 

 percent dextrose content. Re-refined, this becomes pure dex- 

 trose, which is the most intimate sugar of metabolism and 

 which is absorbed directly into the blood stream, without any 

 digestive modification being necessary. 



The relationship between this corn sugar and cane sugar 

 is told by the chemists in the formulas for the two. Cane sugar 

 is Ci2H22On. Corn sugar is written CeH^Oe. Starch, which is 

 the base of dextrose (corn sugar), becomes by the same fig- 

 uring CeHioOs. 



Cane sugar is sweeter to the taste than corn sugar. This is 

 an advantage in favor of the latter when it comes to making 

 jams, jellies and certain types of confectionery in which sugar 

 is required for its values and not for its excessive sweetness. 

 Today the two sugars are combined in many candies and 

 confections. Corn sugar has another quality which makes it 

 especially amenable to certain manufacturing formulas: it will 

 absorb flavors without becoming moist. This is something 

 which cane sugar will not do. 



Today a large proportion of the corn which goes to the 

 starch refineries goes back to the public in confectionery, ice 

 cream, desserts, soft drinks. The caramel coloring matter in 

 ginger ale, soft drinks and various tonics is actually corn. The 

 same caramel coloring tints leathers in belts, handbags, shoes. 

 Corn has found its way into so many things in our daily life 

 that it has truthfully been said, "Wherever you may be, and 



