DANGEROUS PURITY.
A suggestively paradoxical epigram was made to me tlie other day by a distinguished man of science and (with the proviso that it has no moral reference!) I may he allowed to quote it, writes Sir AY. Beach Thomas. AVe were discussing food in wartime, and he said, “Nothing is so foul as purity,” The whiteness of bread sacrifices savour and sustenance. Cider is robbed of its full taste because the public insists on unclouded brightness. Even olive oil is spoiled by needless purification. Year by year it is being proved by science that purification robs a number of foods of necessary ingredients, sometimes virtually intangible and invisible. The synthetic product and the much purified natural product both miss essentials.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 4
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