Where'd you get that juice? (Origins of stimulating plants)
What is China or Asia?
These plant organs are what comprise saffron.
What are stigma, style, and sometimes anthers?
Kvass, Kefir, and Kombucha are all examples of drinks with low alcohol contents this are considered this.
What is soft drinks?
This is the Coffee Family
What is Rubiaceae?
This is perhaps the first beverage made by humans made from fermented honey and water.
What is mead?
This is the country or region Coffea arabica is native.
What is Ethiopia or Africa?
This is the botanical term for a plant that does not produce wood.
What is herb?
This dioecious member of the cannabaceae family contains resins that have sedative effects.
What is hops?
This is the family tea (and other lovely ornamental shrubs) is in.
What is Theaceae?
This is fermented fruit juice made from any fruit.
What is wine?
This is where Theobroma cacao is native.
These three spices were only known to the Spice Islands.
What are Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum), Mace & Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)?
The soft drink Coca-Cola once contained coca and kola, this is why each were desirable.
What is they contained stimulants, cocaine & caffeine?
This is the family of Horseradish and Mustards that create a burning sensation in the mouth via mustard oils.
What is Brassicaceae?
What does the FDA recommend as the safe daily amount of caffeine?
What is 400mg?
This is where Erythroxylum coca is native.
What is South America or the Andes (Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile)?
This was the establishment of routes to ensure continual supplies of spices. It lead to new lands being discovered and at times distress for indigenous peoples.
What is the Spice Trade?
This is produced through fermentation by yeast.
What is acids, gases, and alcohol?
This is the family of the plant whose seeds were once mixed with vanilla and spices to make a bitter hot chocolate of sorts.
What is Malvaceae?
These ingredients combine to make milk chocolate.
What is cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk?
This is where Ilex paraguriensis is native.
What is South America, specifically Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay?
Where are the islands the Dutch described as the “Spice Islands”?
What is off the coast of Indonesia?
Phylloxera was a pest that killed many grapes from this region.
What is Europe more specifically France?
This is the family in which yerba mate and holly's reside.
What is Aquifoliaceae?
This plant was a major crop and an entheogen in the southern US before cotton and is still use widely today.
What is tobacco?