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| Absinthe |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, all (gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 80 proof |
Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%–74% ABV) beverage. It is an anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, commonly referred to as "grande...
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| Beer |
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Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular, all |
Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly malted...
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| Black Russian |
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The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur (usually three parts vodka to two parts coffee liqueur, per the Kahlúa bottle's label, or five parts vodka to two parts coffee liqueur, per IBA specified ingredients). It is traditionally...
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| Bacardi |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, rum, 80 proof |
Bacardi is a family-controlled spirits company, best known as a producer of rums, including Bacardi Superior and Bacardi 151. The company sells in excess of 200 million bottles per year in nearly 100 countries. The company's sales in 2007 were $5.5...
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| Cream |
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Cream, fluid, half and half |
Cream (including light whipping cream) is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial...
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| Coca-Cola |
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Coke |
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines internationally. The Coca-Cola Company claims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia,...
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| Cranberry |
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Cranberries, raw |
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccos. They are found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler parts of the Northern...
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| Chocolate |
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Candies, milk chocolate |
Chocolate (pronounced /ˈtʃɒklət/ (help·info) or /-ˈələt/) comprises a number of raw and processed foods produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America,...
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| Cuba Libre |
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The Cuba Libre (IPA /'kuβ̞a'liβ̞ɾe/ in Spanish, kjuːbʌ liːbɹeɪ/ in English, "Free Cuba") is a highball made of Cola, lime, and rum. This highball is often referred to as a Rum and Coke in the United States and Canada, where the lime juice is...
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| DDT |
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DDT (from its trivial name, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is one of the most well-known synthetic pesticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, and controversial history.
First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not...
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| Fruit |
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Fruit, mixed, (peach and pear and pineapple), canned, heavy syrup, solids and liquids |
The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds, and the presence of seeds indicates that a structure is...
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| Gin |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, gin, 90 proof |
Gin is a spirit flavoured primarily with juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling white grain spirit which has been flavoured with juniper berries. Compound gin is made by flavouring neutral grain spirit with juniper berries without...
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| Gin and tonic |
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A gin and tonic is a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water, usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon and often served over ice. The ratio of gin to tonic water can vary considerably according to taste, with up to 50% gin being...
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| Honey |
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Honey is a sweet food made by some insects using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by...
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| Kahlúa |
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Kahlua |
Kahlúa is a well known Mexican coffee-flavored liqueur. It is heavy and sweet, with a distinct taste of coffee, from which it is made. Kahlua also contains sugar, corn syrup and vanilla bean.
Allied Domecq, which was created in 1994 as the result of...
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| Mint |
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Mentha |
Mentha (mint) is a genus of about 25 species (and many hundreds of varieties) of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (Mint Family). Species within Mentha have a subcosmopolitan distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North...
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| Milk |
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Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat |
Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It provides the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries...
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| Manhattan |
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A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Commonly used whiskeys include rye (the traditional choice), Canadian, bourbon and Tennessee. Proportions of whiskey to vermouth vary, from a very sweet 1:1 ratio to a much...
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| Mojito |
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Mojito (pronounced /moʊˈhiːtoʊ/; Spanish: [moˈxito]) is a traditional Cuban highball.
A Mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, sparkling water and mint. The original Cuban recipe...
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| Olive |
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Olives, ripe, canned (small-extra large) |
The Olive (Olea europaea) is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea...
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| Old Fashioned |
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The Old Fashioned is a cocktail, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail. It is traditionally served in a short, round, 8–12 ounce tumbler-like glass, called an Old-Fashioned glass, named after the drink.
The Old Fashioned is one of six...
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| Piña Colada |
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Pina Colada |
The piña colada (Spanish, strained pineapple: piña, pineapple + colada, strained) is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with hard rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice. It may be garnished with a...
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| Rum |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, rum, 80 proof |
Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak and other barrels. The majority of the world...
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| Rob Roy cocktail |
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First appearing in New York City around 1890, the Rob Roy is a cocktail similar to a Manhattan. The drink is named for the Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor. The Rob Roy is made with Scotch whisky, while the Manhattan is commonly made with...
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| Soft drink |
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Carbonated beverage, cola, contains caffeine |
A soft drink is a drink that does not contain alcohol . Soft drinks are often carbonated and commonly consumed while cold. The most common soft drinks are colas, flavored water, sparkling water, iced tea, sweet tea, lemonade, squash and fruit punch....
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| Salt |
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A salt, in chemistry, is an ionic compound, and can result from the neutralization reaction of acids and bases. Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically...
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Sugars, total |
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in...
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| Stout |
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Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular, all |
Stout and porter are dark beers, and more specifically ales, made using roasted malt or barley, hops, water, and ale (top fermenting) yeast. Stouts were traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest beers, typically 7% or 8%, produced...
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| Sake |
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Rice wine |
Sake or saké (pronounced /ˈsɑːkiː/ or /ˈsɑːkeɪ/ in English and [sake] ( listen) in Japanese) is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
This beverage is called sake in English, but in Japanese, sake (酒) or o-sake (お酒) refers to alcoholic...
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| Scotch whisky |
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Scotch |
Scotch whisky is whisky made in Scotland. In Britain, the term whisky is usually taken to mean Scotch unless otherwise specified. In other English-speaking countries, it is often referred to as "Scotch".
Scotch whisky is divided into four distinct...
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| Alcoholic beverage, distilled, all (gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 80 proof | ||||
| Sambuca |
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Alcoholic beverage, liqueur, coffee, 63 proof |
Sambuca is an Italian anise-flavoured, usually colourless liqueur. Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca to differentiate it from other varieties that are deep blue in colour (black sambuca) or bright red (red sambuca)....
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| Screwdriver |
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A Screwdriver is a popular highball drink made with orange juice and vodka. Sometimes it is referred to as "Vodka and Orange". While the basic drink is simply the two ingredients, there are many variations, many of these with multiple names, that...
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| Sour mix | Whiskey sour mix, bottled |
Sour mix is a mixer used in many cocktails. It is made from approximately equal parts lemon and/or lime juice and simple syrup and shaken vigorously with ice. This produces a pearly-white liquid with a pronounced flavor.
Sour mix can be mixed with...
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| Tom Collins |
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The Tom Collins is a type of Collins cocktail made from carbonated water, sugar, lemon juice and Gin. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by "the father of American mixology" Jerry Thomas, this 'Gin and Sparkling Lemonade' drink typically is...
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| Vermouth |
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Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, all |
Vermouth is a fortified wine, flavored with aromatic herbs and spices ("aromatized" in the trade) such as cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile. Some vermouth is sweetened; however, unsweetened, or dry, vermouth tends to be bitter. The person...
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| Vodka |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, vodka, 80 proof |
Vodka (Russian: водка, Polish: wódka; from вода (woda) [water] + ка (ka) [little]) is a clear distilled liquor composed of water and ethyl alcohol, made from a fermented substance of either grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet molasses; it...
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| Wine |
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Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, all |
Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients. Wine is produced by fermenting crushed...
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| Water |
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H2O |
Water (H2O, HOH) is the most abundant molecule on Earth's surface, constituting about 75% of the Earth's surface. In nature it exists in liquid, solid, and gaseous states. It is in dynamic equilibrium between the liquid and gas states at standard...
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| Water, tap, drinking | ||||
| Worcestershire sauce |
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Sauce, worcestershire |
Worcestershire sauce (pronounced /ˈwʊstərʃɪər sɔːs/ WOOS-tər-sheer saws), or often Worcester Sauce (/ˈwʊstər sɔːs/ WOOS-tər saws) is a fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring many cooked and uncooked dishes, especially with grilled or...
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| White Russian |
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A White Russian is a sweet cocktail made from vodka, coffee liqueur (e.g., Kahlúa or Tia Maria), and cream served in an old-fashioned glass with ice. Milk or Half & Half or Baileys Irish Cream is often used as a substitute for cream. In recent years...
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| Lemon |
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Lemons, raw, with peel |
The lemon is a small evergreen tree (Citrus limon) originally native to Asia, and is also the name of the tree's oval yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the...
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| Nutmeg |
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Spices, nutmeg, ground |
Nutmeg or Myristica fragrans is an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia, or Spice Islands. Until the mid 19th century this was the world's only source. The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from...
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| Tequila |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, all (gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 80 proof |
Tequila (Spanish pronunciation: [teˈkila]) is an agave-based spirit made primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, 65 kilometres (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
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| Bourbon whiskey |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, whiskey, 86 proof |
Bourbon is an American whiskey, a type of distilled spirit, made primarily from corn and named for Bourbon County, Kentucky. It has been produced since the 18th century. While it can be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated...
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| Brandy |
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Alcoholic beverage, distilled, all (gin, rum, vodka, whiskey) 80 proof |
Brandy (from brandywine, derived from Dutch brandewijn—"burnt wine") is a spirit produced by distilling wine, the wine having first been produced by fermenting grapes. Brandy generally contains 36%–60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an...
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| Squash |
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Squash, summer, all varieties, raw |
Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita native to Mexico and Central America, also called marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker. It is also natively grown in other parts of North America, and in...
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| Orange juice |
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Orange juice, raw |
Orange juice is a popular breakfast beverage made from the extraction (squeezing) of liquid from fresh oranges. The term "orange juice" is also used, both colloquially and commercially, to refer to "concentrated orange juice".
Some refrigerated...
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| Cinnamon |
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Spices, cinnamon, ground |
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum, synonym C. zeylanicum) is a small evergreen tree belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka, or the spice obtained from the tree's bark. It is often confused with other similar species and the similar spices...
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| Champagne |
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Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, white |
Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of the wine to effect carbonation. It is produced exclusively within the Champagne region of France, from which it takes its name. Through international treaty,...
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| 7 Up |
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Carbonated beverage, lemon-lime soda, contains caffeine |
7 Up is a brand of a lemon-lime flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States, and PepsiCo (or its licensees) in the rest of the world. The 7 Up logo includes a red spot between...
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| Cherry |
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Cherries, sweet, raw |
The cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus. It is a fleshy fruit that contains a single stony seed. The cherry fruits of commerce are usually obtained from a limited number of species, including especially cultivars of the wild...
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| Ginger |
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Ginger root, raw |
Ginger is a tuber which is consumed whole as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale. It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric,...
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| Strawberry |
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Strawberries, raw |
Fragaria (pronounced /frəˈɡɛəriə/) is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. There are more than 20 described species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common...
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| Sugarcane |
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Sugar cane |
Sugarcane, or sugar cane, is any of six to thirty-seven species (depending on taxonomic system) of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae). Native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia, they have...
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| Pineapple |
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Pineapple, raw, traditional varieties |
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. Pineapple is eaten fresh or canned and is available as a juice or in juice combinations. It is...
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| Cardamom |
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Spices, cardamom |
The name "cardamom" is used for herbs within two genera of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, namely Elettaria and Amomum. Both varieties take the form of a small seedpod, triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin papery outer shell...
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| Red Bull |
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Energy drink, RED BULL, with added caffeine, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamins B6 and B12 |
Red Bull is an energy drink which is produced and sold by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. In 2006, more than 3 billion cans were sold in over 130 countries.
The beverage's slogan is "Gives you Wings"
Red Bull originated from an energy drink from...
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| Curaçao |
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Curacao |
Curaçao (pronounced /ˈkjʊərəsaʊ/ in English; Dutch: Curaçao, Papiamentu: Kòrsou) is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The island area of Curaçao (Dutch: Eilandgebied Curaçao, Papiamentu: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou),...
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| Rosewater |
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Rose water or rose syrup (Persian: گلاب Golâb, Turkish: Gül suyu, Greek: Ροδόνερο Rhodhonero, Arabic: ماء ورد Māʾ ward, Urdu: عرق گلاب , Telugu పన్నీరు Panneeru, Bulgarian: розова вода) is the hydrosol portion of the distillate of rose petals. Rose...
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| Mickey Slim |
The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. According to the The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (also known as...
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