GRAPE SUGAR FROM RAGS.
A manufactory in Germany turns out a thousand lbs grape sugar a day made from old linen. The old linen, which is purely vegetable fibriue.is treated with sulphuric acid and converted into dextrine. This is washed with lime water and then treated with more acid, and almost immediately it changes and crystallizes into glucose, or grape sugar—which is highly valued in the making of rich preserves and jellies. The process is said to be economical, and the sugar is chemically the same as that found in the grape. Why the product should be objected to on the score of its origin is not clear, if one reflects that grapes are nourished by materials more offensive than bid rags, ard there is practically no difference between a transformation; in nature’s laboratory and one in the labora tory of the chemist. Still there is a great outcry over the German rag-sugar factory and considerable danger of the enterprise being stopped by the German Government.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2466, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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166GRAPE SUGAR FROM RAGS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2466, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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