In
1960s, Florida college football team
was looking for a way to improve the hydration and athletic performance of its
athletes during hot. The football coach was
concerned that many of his players were suffering negatively from heat and
heat-related illnesses and desperately wanted a way to prevent this.
Sports drinks history came from a long way in the 1960s. It
all started when a football college team coach in Florida consulted a group of
local university physicians about his players suffering from the negatively
from the heat and heat related illness. The researchers conducted a research
and found out the following:
·
Loss of body electrolytes from excessive sweating
that were not being adequately replace
·
Depleted muscle carbohydrate stores, from long practices, causing
muscle fatigue and failure.
In the end, the researchers found a solution for
it and started formulating a special carbohydrate- electrolyte drink for these
players. The players were in top form in every match because of that drink and
they even won the orange bowl for the first year in their school history.
The drink contained a mixture of water sugar,
sodium, potassium, and phosphate and lemon juice. “Gatorade” was the name of the
was the first ever sports drink formulated in
the world.
History of
Alcoholic beverage
While no one knows when beverage alcohol was
first used, it was presumably the result of a fortuitous accident that occurred
at least tens of thousands of years ago. However, the discovery of late Stone
Age beer jugs has established the fact that intentionally fermented beverages
existed at least as early as the Neolithic period (cir. 10,000 B.C.). Alcohol
is a product that has provided a variety of functions for people throughout all
history.
The earliest alcoholic beverages may have been made from berries or honey, and winemaking may have originated in the wild grape regions of the Middle East.From the earliest times to the present, alcohol
has played an important role in religion and worship. Historically, alcoholic
beverages have served as sources of needed nutrients and have also been widely
used for their medicinal and antiseptic. For example, beverages were widely
used in all segments of Chinese society, were used as a source of inspiration,
were important for hospitality, and were an antidote for fatigue.
The role of such beverages as thirst quenchers
is obvious. and they play an important role in enhancing the enjoyment and
quality of life. Many people have treated drinking as a form of enjoyment,
enhancing quality of life. Sometimes, it can also increase the pleasure of
eating.
In the next blog post, I will talk more about Wine, letting you have a better understanding of Wine. So please stay tune to my next blog post :)
The Big History Of Soft Drinks
What is a soft drink? A soft drink is a beverage that
contains carbonated water, a sweetener and a flavoring. It can also be called
a soda, a term which many people uses. The name soft drink comes from the word “soft”
in comparison with “hard drinks” which is also known as alcoholic drinks. Although
some may notice that some soft drinks can have alcohol content in it, in order
for the drink to be under the category of “soft” drinks its alcohol content has
to be less than 0.5% of the total volume! So you might want to check some of
the soft drinks before buying for young children!
The first soft drink marketed in the Western world was
all the way back in the 17th century. It was made of water and lemon
juice sweetened with honey and it is commonly known as Lemonade in present day.
In 1676, Paris, Vendors would carry tanks of lemonade on their backs and dispensing
the drink into cups selling to Parisians.
Carbonated drinks was also discovered by an English man
in the late 18th century by a man called Joseph Priestly. In 1976,
he discovered a method by infusing carbonated water with carbon dioxide to make
carbonated water. He did it by suspending a bowl of distilled of water above a
beer at local brewery in England. His invention of carbonated water was the
biggest change in how soft drinks can be made.
http://www.zyka.com/wp-content/uploads/softdrinks-zyka-dallas.jpTea time
The
Chinese character for tea is 茶,
originally written as 荼 (pronounced tu,
used as a word for a bitter herb), and acquired its current form during the Tang Dynasty as used in the eighth-century treatise on tea.
Tea
is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot
or boiling water over cured leaves of the tea plant. After water, tea is the
most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter
taste.
Tea originated in China as a medicinal drink. It was first introduced to Portuguese priests and merchants in
China during the 16th century. Drinking
tea became popular in Britain during
the 17th century. The British introduced it to India, in order to compete with the Chinese
monopoly on the product.
Tea has long been
promoted for having a variety of positive health benefits. Recent studies
suggest that green tea may help reduce the risk of cancer, promote oral health, reduce blood
pressure, help with weight control and improve antibacterial Green tea is also
said to have "anti-fibrotic properties, and neuro protective power." Additional research is needed to
"fully understand its contributions to human health, and advise its
regular consumption in Western diets."
Consumption of green tea
is associated with a lower risk of diseases that cause functional disability,
such as “stroke, cognitive impairment, and osteoporosis” in the elderly.
Tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid whose consumption is mildly associated
with a calm but alert and focused, relatively productive mental state in
humans. This mental state is also common to meditative practice.
On my next blog post, i will share more about teas, if you want to know more about it, be sure to visit our blogs again.Thank You :)
On my next blog post, i will share more about teas, if you want to know more about it, be sure to visit our blogs again.Thank You :)
The Beginning Of Your Cup Of Coffee.
Cafe hopping have been a recent trend in Singapore within teenagers and adults, the environment, atmosphere and others but the key to success of a cafe is the cup of coffee. Enjoy drinking coffee? The bitterness, fragrance, thickness of the milk foam or the sweetness of the brown or white sugar, condensed milk or just honey added into coffee. However, do you know where does coffee beans originated? What is the process of making coffee from beans? Let me bring you through the history of coffee, let us beginning!
The coffee berries harvested
and have two methods of processing, dry process and wet process methods. The
flesh of the berries removed and the seeds will go to the fermentation process
then washed by fresh water to remove the fermentation residue and finally
dried.
The next step is to roast the
coffee seed to improve the taste of the beverage both physically and
chemically. The moisture of the seed evaporates, cause it to be less dense,
strengthening the coffee and requirements for packaging. There are many ways to
roast the coffee beans and different degree of coffee beans are roasted. The most
common roast is the French Roast, the coffee beans will be dark brown and shiny
because of the natural oil in the coffee beans, acidity has been diminished. Then
the coffee beans will be ground to powder, either by the coffee grinder or pound
depending on what kind of coffee being served.
Then it comes to the most
essential part of coffee preparation, the brewing. Without the hot water that
sips through and mixes with the coffee powder, you might actually be eating raw
coffee powder! The most common ones are boiling and pressure.
Boiling is simply putting the ground
coffee powder into a cup and pour hot water over it and leave it to sit, some people
can choose to stir but it is not advisable unless you want to drink the ground.
under pressure, extracting the
flavour of the finely ground coffee. Espresso shots have the most extracted and
refined flavour of natural taste of the coffee beans. Pressure requires a coffee
machine to be able to do the job as the machine have already been programmed to
know the exact amount of pressure to push the water through the coffee powders.
Here’s a video for you to see
how your cup of coffee is being made at a Barista!
That’s about it for all the
simple and short explanation! Stay tune for the next post when we will talk
about the different variety of cup of coffee like Cappuccino! Espresso! Latte
and more! See you next time!
Ciao!
