1870s New Foods
- Saccharin
- Cubed sugar
- Synthetic vanilla
- Rootbeer
- Wheatena
- Nestle’s Infant Milk Food
- Milk chocolate
- Ice cream soda
- Commercial production of margarine
- Japanese beef-eating taboo ends (c. 1870)
- Chewing Gum from chicle
- Tone Brothers [spices and coffee]
1870s New Cooking Gadgets
- Can opener with cutting wheel.
- Four-tined silver fork, beginning the end of eating with knife.
- Square bottomed paper-bags.
1870s New Food Companies
- Lipton
- Pillsbury & Co.
- F. & J. Heinz
- Quaker Mills
- Hills Brothers
- Grand Union Tea Co.
- Confectioner’s Journal
1870s Food Industry Beginnings
- Milking machines
- Glass milk bottles
- Orange crates
- Pressure cooking in food canning: 1874
- Frozen meat shipments: 1877
- Mechanical cream separator
- Porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice
- William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil)
1870s Farming Progress
- Bison herds disappearing
- Large US agricultural exports
- European farm land shortage
- Quantity banana imports to US
- Long-distance cattle driving
- Barbed wire fences
- Vast US acreage for farming and cattle ranches
