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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