FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



POISONOUS HONEY.* 



A case was reported from Branehville, S. C. A number of people ate honey gath- 

 ered from gelseminm flowers. Three died and 20 were rendered ill. Analysis of the 

 honey showed large quantities of gelsemin. 



FENNEL HONKY.t 



Fennel honey consists of 500 grams purified honey; malt sugar, 1,000 grains; fen- 

 nel oil, 5 drops, and a little glycerin. 



TINTED HONEY. { 



Tinted honey of great beauty and delicacy has been produced. The comb is vir- 

 gin, the wax almost white, the honey limpid, pure, and of the color of pale red cur- 

 rant jelly. The secret of its production is not revealed, except that it is the result 

 of artificial feeding. 



ANALYSIS OF ETHIOPIAN HONEY.? 



This honey is the product of an insect resembling a large fly and is deposited un- 

 derground. No wax is secreted. The honey gave on analysis: Water, 25.50 percent; 

 fermentable sugar (levulose with one-sixth dextrose, hut no cane sugar), :12; raan- 

 nite, 3 ; dextrin, 27.90 ; ash, 2.50 ; and other substances and loss, 9.10. 



HONEY FROM SUMATRA. || 



This sample was the product of Apis indica and was gathered during the rainy 

 season. When it came into the author's hands half a year later it was fermenting, 

 hut was nevertheless analyzed. It contained 26.6 per cent of water ; levulose and 

 dextrose in the ratio of 5.92 to 7.41, and traces of wax, starch, and pollen grains. 

 Neither cane sugar nor dextrin could he detected. The ash amounted to 0.23 per 

 cent. 



* Chem. Zeit, 1886, 27. 



t Pharm. Zeit., 1879, 719 ; Am. Jour. Pharm., March, 1880,1.12; Proc. Amer. Pharm. 

 Assoc.,1880, 60. 



t Pharm. Jour. Loud., Dec., 1-70 ; Abs. in Proc. Amer. Pharm. Assoc., 1871, 313. 

 A. Villiers, Comptes rendu, 88, 292; abs. Chem. Centralblatt, 1879, 229. 

 || A. P. N. Frauchimont, Chem. Centralblatt, 1883, 138. 



