86 MAINE AGRICULTUR-\L EXPERIMENT STATION. 100 = 



C. CANDY. 



I. Candy is a product made from a saccharine substance or 

 substances with or without the addition of harmless coloring, 

 flavoring, or filling materials and contains no terra alba, bar}i;es, 

 talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substances, or poisonous 

 colors or flavors, or other ingredients injurious to health. 



d. HONEV. 



1. Honey is the nectar and saccharine exudations of plants 

 gathered, modified, and stored in the comb by honey bees CApis 

 meUiiicaj. It is laevo-rotatory, contains not m.ore than twent}-- 

 five (2^) per cent of water, not more than twenty-five hun- 

 dredths (0.25; per cent of ash, and not more than eight (S) per 

 cent of sucrose. 



2. Comh honey is honey contained in the cells of comb. 



3. Extracted honey is honey which has been separated from 

 the uncrushed comb by centrifugal force or gravity. 



4. Strained honey is honey remjjved from the crushed comib 

 by straining or other means. 



D. Condiments Texcept vinegar). 



a. SPICES. 



1. Spices are arom.atic vegetable substances used for the 

 seasoning of food and from which no portion of any volatile oil 

 or other flavoring principle has been removed and which are 

 soimd and true to name. 



2. Allspice or pimento is the dried fruit of Pirnenta pi)nenta 

 (L.) Karst. and contains not less than eight ('81 per cent of 

 quercitannic acid:* not more than six (6'\ per cent of total ash: 

 not more than five-tenths (0.5) per cent of ash insoluble in 

 hydrochloric acid, and not more than twenty-five ('25 j per cent 

 of crude fiber. 



3. Anise is the fruit of Pimpinclla anisum L. 



4. Bay leaf is the dried leaf of Laums nobilis L. 



5. Capers are the flower buds of Capparis spinosa L. 



6. Carazcax is the fruit of Caritni cariii L. 



•Calculated from the total oxvgen absorbed by the aqueous extract. 



