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the first place, not one grain or particle of coffee or any other substance whatsoever enters Postum, except choice wheat and about 10 per cent of pure New Orleans molasses. No chemicals whatsoever are used.

But just to brown wheat and mix in some molasses will not make Postum.

First, part of the wheat is coarsely hulled, and the part sticking to the hulls contains certain things nature uses for rebuilding purposes, Potash, Lime, Iron, etc., etc., also the dormant element known as Diastase, most important in the transformation of the starch part of wheat. Now this coarse part of the wheat is moistened, subjected to slow heat, mixed with the