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A Question Of Health

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bread, biscuit and cake, now generally made by the aid of baking powder, enter so largely into our daily food that their debasement by the introducían of any injurious or deteriorating substance is a matter of serious concern to the public health. What baking powder shall we use to avoid the lime and alum now found in so many leavening agents, and to insure pure, sweet and wholesome bread, is a question, therefore, of direct importance to every individual. It is an indisputable fact that all baking powders with the single exception of the "Royal" contain one or the other of these adulterants - lime or alum - in quantities from five to twenty per cent. Alum is poisonous. Lime reduces their strength not only but (aside from its injurious effects upon the system) by debasing our food with a useless substance robs it of a portion of its nutritious qualities, thereby depriving our bodies of the full sustenance necessary to maintain that bodily vigor requisite to protect us from disease. The importance of this matter in its bearing upon the life and health of the public is much more fully realized in England, where severe punishments, under stringent laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of adulterated articles of food, are of frequent occurrence. The "Royal" has been determined by the Government chemists and the most prominent food analysts to be the only baking powder made that is entirely free from lime, alum and other impurities, and absolutely pure. It is made from cream of tartar refined for its exclusive use by patent processes by which the tartrate of lime is totally eliminated. No other biiking powder manufacturer uses chemically pure cream of tartar, and henee the adulteration of other brands. The "Royal" is, accordingly, the only baking powder that will produce perfectly pure bread, biscuit, cake, pastry, etc; and, these articles are now pronounced more wholesome when raised by the Royal Baking Powder than when leavened by any other igent. It ïs particularly a question of health, therefore, what baking powder we shall use; and those who appreciate the miseries of dyspepsia and other ailments that follow the use of impure food will not hesitate to select the " Royal.''

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Ann Arbor Register