928 
FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 
Ground coffees. 
Water test. 
Water test. Proportion 
Serial. | Coloration in sinking in 
five minutes. | water in tive 
minutes. 
6854 | Slight’........ Be aie en eran an 
OSS SIN OC OLO Gace oe eee 
Gass ||, sad 2assce BE iets eaariae ent 
6859) Highly colored|c25-- 25.252 4o. 
GD | NOCH Psa See sl ee ee sees 
G82 PA dol ys soos a We ne ge 
68654 wEichilyicoloned | hasses=eseee eee 
| | 
GSAT olichite eo sce soe eee ae ees 
GSiSseC olorede sere sees sees ee en oee 
OSM ae seClO sy eNE en ae Siete 
(Gletsi) || IN@ COMO Ss6 scl. See eeecscensccs 
SSA eserers CLO frais se nore ai pores oe eloces oar a 
8775 | Highly colored) Two-thirds : -. 
8777 ELOY Meee et One-half ....-. 
SUSE ee Onesie ee loa One-half 
8782 | Slight .-.-.._- One-fourth. --. 
8784 | Highly colored} One-third...-. 
Basen Sliehti 427 | One-third 
8786 | Highly colored, Two-thirds ... 
Sis | tsibvlitn Goose eee ose tene Settee ee 
8788 | Highly colored, One-half ...... 
| 
8794 | Slight ...-.... | One-fourth- --. 
8796 | Highly colored Three-fourths 
STOO EAs dO) eee 4) Nearly callers 
8801 .-do ...-.....| Three-fourths 
8802 | No color ...--- | One-fifth. ..--- 
S803 \uslight 225: -2e. - One-fourth -.. 
XMS vec) eeasa sade | One-half -..-.- 
8853 || Hughiy, colored|22:. 22252522. 
S8adtie Colored. esse cle ey sae 
Microscopic examination. 
Approximate 
coffee. 
Adulterants. 
Per cent. 
100 
75 to 90 
100 
or 
io 
100 
100 
25 
Nearly 100 
7) 
Less than 25 
90 
100 
50 
D0 
50 
50 to 75 
50 
50 to 7a 
25 to 50 
Nearly 100 
25 to 50 
100 
50 to 75 
No coffee --- 
50 
25 to 50 
25 to 50 
25 to 40 
Initation coffee. — 
Chicory and wheat. Dealer admitted presence, 
of chicory. 
Chicory and wheat. Wheat partly in masses, 
probably Graham bread crumbs; rest in 
fragments. 
Chicory. 
Chicory and pease. 
Chicory, pea hulls, and wheat. 
Imitation coffee. 
Sample consists of coffee screenings. 
Much peas (especially the testa), wheat bran 
and chicory. 
Wheat and chicory. 
Wheat, chicory, and pease, and a little corn. 
Pease and chicory, with a little corn. 
Chicory and barley, with small amount of pease 
and corn. 
Chicory and pease. 
Small amount chicory, wheat bran, buckwheat 
bran, and pea hulls, and fragments of pease. 
Small amount wheat, pease, and chicory. 
Chicory and barley, with occasional fragments 
corn. 
Chicory and pease. 
About 25 per cent chicory; rest wheat bran 
and pea hulls mashed together. 
Mostly pea hulls, fragments of pease, wheat, 
and small per cent chicory. 
Wheat, probably Graham bread. 
Chicory and wheat. 
Pea hull, with small per cent wheat and chic- 
ory. 
About 50 per ceut chicory; rest pease and 
wheat. ! 
Wheat, chicory, and pease. 
1 Dealer stated that this sample contains 50 per cent cotfee and 50 per cent chicory. 
The results of the examination of thirty samples are given in the table 
Twenty-six samples, or 862 per cent of the samples 
examined, were adulterated, or if we include serial No. 8773, this per- 
centage is increased to 90. One sample, sold as ground Rio, contained 
no coffee at all. In fifteen samples the purchaser obtained half, or less 
of ground coffees. 
