The Drink Portal
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Introduction
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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PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi Cola to an immensely diversified range of food and beverage brands. The largest and most recent acquisition was Pioneer Foods in 2020 for US$1.7 billion and prior to it was buying the Quaker Oats Company in 2001, which added the Gatorade brand to the Pepsi portfolio and Tropicana Products in 1998.
As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over US$1 billion in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products were distributed across more than 200 countries, resulting in annual net revenues of over US$70 billion. PepsiCo is the second-largest food and beverage business in the world based on net revenue, profit, and market capitalization, behind Nestlé. PepsiCo's flagship product, Pepsi Cola has been engaged in a rivalry for generations with Coca-Cola; it is commonly referred to as the cola wars. Although Coca-Cola outsells Pepsi Cola in the United States, PepsiCo within the North American market is the largest food and beverage company by net revenue. Ramon Laguarta has been the chief executive of PepsiCo since 2018. The company's beverage distribution and bottling is conducted by PepsiCo as well as by licensed bottlers in certain regions. (Full article...)
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- ... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
- ... that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
- ... 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 as the governor of North Sumatra, Ulung Sitepu donated 2,400 bottles of passion fruit drinks for the inaugural Games of the New Emerging Forces?
- ... that the Duke of Sussex has been providing drinks in Acton Green for over a century?
- ... that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?
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The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
2004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Singapore Sling (from List of national drinks)
The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Hot chocolate served with a croissant (from List of drinks)
A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon (from List of drinks)
Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Bosnian 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)
Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan (from List of national drinks)
Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay (from List of national drinks)
A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Characteristics 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)
Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013 (from List of national drinks)
Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Various 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)
Cider (from List of drinks)
A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Clear 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)
Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema (from List of drinks)
Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China (from List of national drinks)
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| “ | Vodka Martini. Shaken, not stirred. | ” |
| — James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) |
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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.
The most well-known and most important 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. (Full article...)Topics
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