#Drink
3 posts tagged “Drink”
Day 111 Irn Bru
Scotland's other national drink http://flic.kr/p/fbn6hT, July 17, 2013 at 05:07PM
What's Inside a Cup of Coffee?
Note: 2 of this post’s 3 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.
via Wired Top Stories by Patrick di Justo on 10/4/09
Caffeine
This is why the world produces more than 16 billion pounds of coffee beans per year. It's actually an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine. The result: you, awake.