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Food Adulteration and Its Detection

Note 51 — FLOUR AND BREAD.

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Wanklyn applies his ammonia process (see p. 205), to the estimation of albuminoids in vegetable substances. In this manner he obtained the following percentages of ammonia from various flours:—Rice, 0·62; maize and malt, 1·03; wheat and barley, 1·10; rye, 1·45; pea, 2·30.

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