FRUIT THAT IS COLOURED ARTIFICIALLY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10017, 15 June 1895, Page 5

FRUIT THAT IS COLOURED ARTIFICIALLY.

« The artificial colouring for purposos of th° ready sale of the more expensive fruits ™ ca r «ed on to on astonishing extent-" Ba^ one °^ * Qe best uow li public analysts in this country. " On'y IDo other day a celebrated French doctor named Villon gave his coasts 5 0IU(> P ears > tno skins of which seomod a u 3o ' utel y wtaot, but when the fruit was uut the pulp showed itself in the for/v of the Freaoh flag— rod, white, and blue ; tbo blue being obtained with Victoria bluo and the red with rhodamine and nz)-red. But the thing is well known. Strawberries aro sprinkled with sulpho-fuohßine or rhodamine, and by means of a brush atrd a perforated plate of zinc, peaches are beautifully tinted up by uaeanß of azo-red and oitronino. luto tho interior of melons, atropeodiuo or tizo-oraugo is introducod by mennß of a lube, into which is also put a small quantity of esaonce of melon. For colouring plums, acetate and sulphate of copper iv minute quantities aro nsod, and loraoiis aro ' sophisticated' with citronino «nd napthol yellow, and the green spots aro simulated by means of di»mon i fireen. Wonderful varieties of apples and pears can be produced by anyone by means of the simplest aniline colours, which are absorbed readily through tho skin to the fruit Itself. " Traveller from a certain class of eliomisth call regularly on the fruiterers who deal with the higher classes, and they also oall upon hotel and restaurant proprietors. Quantities of tho beautiful and cxpeiißivo fruits which oome from abroad havo been dyed In this fashion."