ANALYSIS OF KOLA NUT.
Reading edition
Alkaloids or crystallizable principles:
Per Cent.
Caffeine.2.710
Theobromine.0.084
Bitter principle.0.018
Total alkaloids.———2.812
Fatty matters:
Saponifiable fat or oil.0.734
Essential oil.0.081
Total oils.———0.815
Resinoid matter (sol. in abs. alcohol)1.012
Sugar:
Glucose (reduces alkaline cuprammonium).3.312
Sucrose? (red. alk. cupram. after inversion)1.0.602
Total sugars.———3.914
Starch, gum, etc.:
Gum (soluble in H2O at 90° F.).4.876
Starch.28.990
Amidinous matter (coloring with iodine).2.130
Total gum and fecula.———35.999
Albuminoid matters.8.642
Red and other coloring matters.3.670
Kolatannic acids.1.204
Mineral matter:
Potassa.1.415
Chlorine.0.702
Phosphoric acid.0.371
Other salts, etc.2.330
Total ash.———4.818
Moisture.9.722
Ligneous matter and loss.27.395
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100.000
Both the French and German governments are introducing it into their military dietaries, and in England several large contract orders cannot yet be filled, owing to insufficiency of supply, while a well-known cocoa manufacturing firm has taken up the preparation of kola chocolate upon a commercial scale.—W. Lascelles-Scott, in Jour. Soc. Arts.