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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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A cup of Earl Grey tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar. Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of Camellia taliensis. After plain water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in humans, primarily due to its caffeine content.

An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo. It was popularised as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking subsequently spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among the English, who started to plant tea on a large scale in British India.

The term herbal tea refers to drinks not made from Camellia sinensis. They are the infusions of fruit, leaves, or other plant parts, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. These may be called tisanes or herbal infusions to prevent confusion with tea made from the tea plant. (Full article...)

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... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
... that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
... that Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?
... that the John Snow pub is named for a shy British epidemiologist who did not drink?
... that Assyrian Christian couples drink dust from the tombs of martyrs and are crowned during their weddings?

... there is a white variety of Tempranillo grapes?

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Image 1A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 2A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 4Bosnian 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 5Clear 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 6The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 7Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 9A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 10Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 11Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 13A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 14A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 15Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema (from List of drinks)
Image 16Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 172004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 18Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 19Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 20Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 26Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 27Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 29Various 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 30Hot chocolate served with a croissant (from List of drinks)
Image 31Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 32Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 33Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 35Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 37Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 38A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 39A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 41Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 42Characteristics 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 43Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 45A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 46Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 47A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon (from List of drinks)

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Martini (cocktail)

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A classic martini with a twist of lime

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Pierre Brejoux was Inspector General of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board, which controls the production of top French wines. he served as an expert wine taster in the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. In the blind tasting, California wines won both the red and white wine categories. After the tasting, there were many calls for him to resign his position as Inspector General because so many people and groups were highly displeased with the results. He later revealed to George Taber that he traveled to California in 1974 and 'learned a lot - to my surprise...'. Brejoux also authored several books on French wine. (Full article...)

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What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it...

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— Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)

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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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Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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