The Net Weight or Volume of Food Products Which Are Sold in Packages (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Net Weight or Volume of Food Products Which Are Sold in PackagesThe consumer, however, must clearly understand the limits to the information afforded by a statement of net weight or measure. Many foods, 'like canned vegetables and fruits, are and must be packed with more or less water, which.is either natural to the product or' is directly added. Theweight of a can of vegetables, therefore, gives no information either as to the quality of the vegetable or the relative amounts of solid and liquid contained in the'can. One can may show a greater net weight than another and -'yet contain actually less of the vegetable or fruit in question The statement of weight, therefore, conveys no further informa tion than the amount of material, both solid and liquid, in the6 connecticut experiment station, bulletin no. 172.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.