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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 encompass coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Caffeinated drinks that contain the stimulant caffeine, have been consumed for centuries.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the psychoactive substance ethanol, have been part of human culture for more than 8,000 years. Non-alcoholic drinks typically refer to beverages that are traditionally alcoholic—such as beer, wine, or cocktails—but are produced with a very low alcohol by volume content. This category includes beverages that have undergone processes to remove or significantly reduce alcohol, such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines. (Full article...)

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St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, a popular café for walkers on the hills.

Malvern water is a natural spring water from the Malvern Hills on the border of the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England. The Hills consist of very hard granite and limestone rock. Fissures in the rock retain rain water, which slowly permeates through, escaping at the springs. The springs release an average of about 60 litres a minute and the flow has never been known to cease.

Beneficial properties of the water have been reported for over 400 years, and the reason for such benefits was a topic of scholarly discussion by 1817. In the 19th century Malvern became famous for the water cure, resulting in its rapid development from a village to a busy town with many large Victorian and Edwardian hotels. The writings of the hydrotherapists James Gully and James Wilson, and well known patients who included Lord Lytton contributed to Malvern's renown at that time. The water was bottled on an industrial scale under the Schweppes brand from 1850 until 2010, and has been bottled by a family-owned company since 2009 as Holywell Malvern Spring Water. In 2012 the Holywell Water Co Ltd was granted permission to use the world-famous "Malvern" name in its branding, thus becoming Holywell Malvern Spring Water. It has been drunk by several British monarchs. Elizabeth I drank it in public in the 16th century; Queen Victoria refused to travel without it. (Full article...)

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... that salt marsh snakes drink only rainwater?
... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
... that communities around the Sirinumu Dam lack reliable access to electricity and drinking water?
... that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year?
... that part of the bonus paid to bartender Gary Hoffman after he was selected in the 1984 NFL draft was a round of drinks for his friends?
... that Yi chieftain Xiao Yedan and a Chinese Red Army military leader established an alliance by drinking chicken blood?

... John (Johnnie) Walker, creator of Johnnie Walker whiskey, was a grocer by trade?

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Image 1Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 2The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 4A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 6Various 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 7A glass of grappa, a grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin. Grappa is a protected name in the European Union. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8Piña colada, a cocktail made with rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice. It may be garnished with either a pineapple wedge, maraschino cherry, or both. The drink originated in Puerto Rico. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 10Many in both Peru and Chile consider pisco sour their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 12Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 13Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 14A classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 15A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 17A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 19The espresso comes from the Italian esprimere, which means "to express," and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20Mai Tai is a cocktail made of rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice. It is one of the characteristic cocktails in Tiki culture. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 23Libyan tea with peanuts (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 26Akpeteshie is a liquor produced by distilling palm wine or sugar cane, primarily in the region of Western Africa. (from List of national drinks)
Image 27The spritz is an Italian wine-based cocktail, commonly served as an apéritif across Italy. It consists of Prosecco, digestive bitters, and soda water. The original spritz veneziano uses Select as bitters and was created in Venice in 1920. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 29Krupnik, the national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 30Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 31A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 32Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 33Coffee accessories in small shops in Baščaršija, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 35Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming vodka in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 37Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38Palm wine is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees such as the palmyra, date palms, and coconut palms. It is known by various names in different regions and is common in various parts of Africa, the Caribbean, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia. (from List of national drinks)
Image 39Australian iced coffee served with ice-cream and coffee beans (from List of national drinks)
Image 40The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 422004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 43A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 45Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 46Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 47Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 48Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 49Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 50Per capita, people in Turkey drink more tea than in any other nation. (from List of national drinks)

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Kenyan cuisine

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A Kenyan woman drinking from a ramekin

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Thompson in 1880

Augustin Thompson (November 25, 1835 – June 8, 1903) was a physician, businessman and philanthropist who created the Moxie soft drink and the company that manufactured it (now part of the Coca-Cola Company). (Full article...)

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When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

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— Gene Logsdon
Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol

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Carrageenans or carrageenins (/ˌkærəˈɡiːnɪns/ KAH-rə-GHEE-nihns; from Irish carraigín 'little rock') are a family of natural linear sulfated polysaccharides. They 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. Carrageenans have emerged as a promising candidate in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications as they resemble animal glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). They are 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 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 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 C. crispus have been used as food additives since approximately the fifteenth century. Carrageenan is a vegetarian and vegan alternative to gelatin in some applications, and is used to replace gelatin in confectionery and other food.

The first industrial 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, is used to produce traditional jelly desserts in the Philippines called gulaman.

No clinical evidence establishes carrageenan as an unsafe food ingredient, mainly because its fate after digestion is inadequately determined.

Used in Cream, Milkshakes, Soy milk.

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