SIMPLE TESTS FOR FOODSTUFFS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2612, 9 August 1928, Page 2

SIMPLE TESTS FOR FOODSTUFFS.

Does the milk you buy yield a fair amount of cream? Your tea looks as if it should, but has it been adulterated to give it colour? Have you been purchasing sugar to which some substance has been added to give it weight? In these days of high prices, it pays to make sure that you are being more wholesome, it goes further than the adulterated article. TESTS FOR MILK AND TEA. Milk may be tested thus: Pour a sufficient quantity into a wineglass, or wide necked bottle, to fill the vessel, and iflungs a bright knitting needle into the milk. If the water has been added, the liquid will run rapidly down the needle. Milk with a good percentage of cream runs slowly and forms a drop at the end. Tea leaves are often adulterated to give them a good colour; this is not a wholesome practice, though it may cover a multitude of faults in tea which would otherwise have no sale. Rub a little dry tea in a white cloth. If it has been doctored, a brown stain will be left upon the material. Pure tea should leave only a light black dust, light enough for you to blow away.