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Food Adulteration and Its Detection

Note 99 — WINE.

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F. Schaffer (Zeits. Anal. Chem., xxiv. p. 559) has made the following analyses of artificial wine (grammes in 100 c.c.):—

Alcohol (by volume) 8·05 9·55 7·02

Extract 2·395 1·962 1·797

Sugar 0·330 0·409 0·321

Ash 0·209 0·135 0·160

Acidity (as tartaric) 0·743 0·501 0·772

Free tartaric acid — traces traces

Cream of tartar 0·264 0·227 0·471

Sulphuric anhydride 0·0374 — —

Phosphoric anhydride 0·0196 0·0135 0·0172

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