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The Drink Portal

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A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothies and soft drinks. Traditionally warm beverages include coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Caffeinated drinks that contain the stimulant caffeine have a long history.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the drug ethanol, have been part of human culture for more than 8,000 years. Non-alcoholic drinks often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer, wine and cocktails, but are made with a sufficiently low concentration of alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines. (Full article...)

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Horlicks is a British sweet malted milk hot drink powder developed by founders James and William Horlick. It was first sold as "Horlick's Infant and Invalids Food", soon adding "aged and travellers" to their label. In the early 20th century, it was sold as a powdered meal replacement drink mix.

‘Night starvation’ was a fictitious condition invented by Horlicks as an advertising gimmick that was supposedly relieved if a mug of the malt drink was consumed before bedtime. In the song "Goodness gracious me!", the doctor (played by Peter Sellers) mentions night starvation as one of the many possible ailments that his wealthy Italian patient (played by Sophia Loren) might be suffering from, when in fact the trouble is that they are both lovesick.

It was then marketed as a nutritional supplement and manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (Consumer Healthcare) in Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. It is now produced by the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever through its Indian division. Horlicks in the UK is currently owned by Aimia Foods. (Full article...)

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... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
... that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton?
... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
... that the John Snow pub is named for a shy British epidemiologist who did not drink?
... that salt marsh snakes drink only rainwater?

... that Baileys Irish Cream was the first liqueur to use cream and alcohol together in a manner sufficiently stable to allow commercial distribution?

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Image 1Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 2A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3Various views of a bottle of mezcal. The "worm", which is actually the larval form of the moth Hypopta agavis that lives on the agave plant, can be seen in the middle image, at the bottom of the bottle. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 4Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 7Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 8A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 9Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 10Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 12Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 13Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 14Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 15Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 17Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 19Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Characteristics of boba tea (also known as "bubble tea" or "pearl milk tea") -- the national drink of Taiwan -- are the tapioca balls that rest at the bottom of the beverage that are drunk with a wide straw. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 25A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 26The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 27A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 28Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 29Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 30Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 31A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 32Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming it in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 33Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 34The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 352004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 36Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 37A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 39Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Bosnian Coffee accessory manufacturers' small shops in Baščaršija - drink is important part of country's culture, and was major part of its economy in the past. (from List of national drinks)
Image 42Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 43Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.

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Kenyan cuisine

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A Kenyan woman drinking from a ramekin

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Pemberton, before 1888

John Stith Pemberton (8 July 1831 – 16 August 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On 8 May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold its rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.

He suffered from a sabre wound sustained in April 1865, during the Battle of Columbus. His efforts to control his chronic pain led to morphine addiction. In an attempt to curb his addiction he began to experiment with various painkillers and toxins. The development of an earlier beverage blending alcohol and cocaine led to the recipe that later was adapted to make Coca-Cola. (Full article...)

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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

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— Euripides (485 - 406 BCE)
The Bacchae [c. 407 BCE], l. 274

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Carrageenans or carrageenins (/ˌkærəˈɡiːnənz/ KARR-ə-GHEE-nənz; from Irish carraigín 'little rock') are a family of natural linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from red edible seaweeds. Carrageenans are widely used in the food industry, for their gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties. Their main application is in dairy and meat products, due to their strong binding to food proteins. In recent years, carrageenans have emerged as a promising candidate in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications as they resemble native glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). They have been mainly used for tissue engineering, wound coverage, and drug delivery.

Carrageenans contain 15–40% ester-sulfate content, which makes them anionic polysaccharides. They can be mainly categorized into three different classes based on their sulfate content. Kappa-carrageenan has one sulfate group per disaccharide, iota-carrageenan has two, and lambda-carrageenan has three.

A common red seaweed used for manufacturing the hydrophilic colloids to produce carrageenan is Chondrus crispus (Irish moss), which is a dark red parsley-like alga that grows attached to rocks. Gelatinous extracts of the Chondrus crispus seaweed have been used as food additives since approximately the fifteenth century. Carrageenan is a vegetarian and vegan alternative to gelatin in some applications, so may be used to replace gelatin in confectionery and other food. There is no clinical evidence for carrageenan as an unsafe food ingredient, mainly because its fate after digestion is inadequately determined.

The first industrial scale commercial cultivation of Eucheuma and Kappaphycus spp. for carrageenan was developed in the Philippines. The global top producers of carrageenan are the Philippines and Indonesia. Carrageenan, along with agar, are used to produce traditional jelly desserts in the Philippines called gulaman.

Used in Cream, Milkshakes, Soy milk.

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Soft Drinks:	Carbonation • Cola • Orange soft drink • Frozen carbonated drink • Root beer • Soda water • Lithia water •
Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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