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
[Footnote 1: Inverted by boiling with a 2.5 per cent. solution of
citric acid for ten minutes.]
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._
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