Beverage

Information about Beverage

The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. As a noun, it refers to the liquid that is ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery; to appreciate.

In the United Kingdom, drink is used as a general term for an alcoholic beverage; "Are you going for a drink?"

The word "Drink!" is one of the catchphrases of Father Jack Hackett, the elderly, alcoholic priest from the Channel 4 comedy series Father Ted.

A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption, except water. Beverages almost always largely consist of water. Water is essential for living, significantly more so than food. Death will usually occur after one week without any liquids but humans have been known to survive some months without food.

Types of drinks

Water

Main article: Drinking water

Essential to the survival of all organisms,^[1] water has historically been an important and life-sustaining drink to humans. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of the human body by mass. It is a crucial component of metabolic processes and serves as a solvent for many bodily solutes. Health authorities have historically suggested at least eight glasses, eight fluid ounces each, of water per day (64 fluid ounces, or 1.89 L),^[2]<ref name="epa" /> and the British Dietetic Association recommends 1.8 liters.<ref name="bbc" /> The United States Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the average adult actually ingests 2.0 L per day.^[3]

Water is available in several forms. Nearly all other drinks, including juice, soft drinks, and carbonated drinks, have some form of water in them. Distilled (pure) water is rarely found in nature.^[4] Spring water, a natural resource from which much bottled water comes, is generally imbued with minerals. Tap water, delivered by domestic water systems in developed nations, refers to water piped to homes through a tap. All of these forms of water are commonly drunk, often purified through filtration.^[5]

Orange juice

A carbonated beverage

Alcoholic beverages (which see for classification).
Non-alcoholic variants:
Low alcohol beer
Non-alcoholic wine
Sparkling cider

A cup of coffee

Non-alcoholic drinks

Hot beverages

Hot beverages, including infusions. Sometimes drunk chilled.
Coffee-based beverages
Cappuccino
Coffee
Espresso
Frappé
Flavored coffees (mocha etc.)
Latte
Hot chocolate
Hot cider
Mulled cider
Glühwein
Tea-based beverages
Flavored teas (chai etc.)
Green tea
Pearl milk tea
Tea
Herbal teas
Roasted grain beverages (Postum etc.)

Other

Some substances may either be called food or drink, and accordingly be eaten with a spoon or drunk, depending on solid ingredients in it and on how thick it is, and on preference:

External links

Notes and references

1. ^ Greenhalgh, Alison (March 2001). Healthy living - Water. BBC Health. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
2. ^ The Benefits of Water. Cleveland Clinic. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
3. ^ Chapter 3, Exposure Scenario Selection (PDF) p. 8. EPA (May 2000). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
4. ^ Water Links. Center for Science in the Public Interest. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
5. ^ Brief History of Drinking Water. American Water Works Association (2007). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.

Liquid is one of the four principal states of matter. A liquid is a fluid that can freely form a distinct surface at the boundaries of its bulk material.

Characteristics

A liquid's shape is determined by, not confined to, the container it fills.
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An alcoholic beverage (also known as booze in slang term) is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, although in chemistry the definition of alcohol includes many other compounds.
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Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is often highly regional, specific to a particular territory.
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.^[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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Earth's oceans
(World Ocean)

Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean

An ocean (from Ωκεανός, Okeanos
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Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; defined in the Rules of Golf as
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Father Jack Hackett is a fictional character in the Channel 4 television series Father Ted. The character (played by Frank Kelly) is the deeply alcoholic, and at times violently psychotic, third priest in Father Ted's household.
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Father Ted was a popular 1990s television situation comedy set around the lives of three priests on the extremely remote (and fictional) Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland.
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Drinking water is water that is intended to be ingested by humans. Water of sufficient quality to serve as drinking water is termed potable water whether it is used as such or not.
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Fat

Fat may refer to:

Fat, a group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water
Adipose tissue, an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes

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The human body is the entire physical structure of a human organism. The human body consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. The average height of an adult human is about 1.6 m (5 to 6 feet) tall. This size is largely determined by genes.
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Metabolism is the complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells. These processes are the basis of life, allowing cells to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. Metabolism is usually divided into two categories.
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A solvent is a liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution. The most common solvent in everyday life is water. Most other commonly-used solvents are organic (carbon-containing) chemicals. These are called organic solvents.
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Solubility is a physical property referring to the ability for a given substance, the solute, to dissolve in a solvent.^[1] It is measured in terms of the maximum amount of solute dissolved in a solvent at equilibrium. The resulting solution is called a saturated solution.
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The litre or liter (see spelling differences) is a unit of volume. There are two official symbols, namely the Latin letter L both in lower and upper case: l and L.
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BDA

British Dietetic Association
Founded 1936
Members 5000
Country United Kingdom
Affiliation TUC, STUC
Key people Barbara Clayton, president
Office location Birmingham, England

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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA

Environmental Protection Agency logo

Agency overview
Formed December 2, 1970

Employees 17,964 (2005) [1]
Annual Budget $7.
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Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation usually forms part of a larger chemical process, and is thus referred to as a unit operation.
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spring is a point where groundwater flows out of the ground, and is thus where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface.

Dependent upon the constancy of the water source (rainfall or snowmelt that infiltrates the earth), a spring may be ephemeral (intermittent) or
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Bottled water is drinking water packaged in bottles for individual consumption and retail sale.
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tap water requires a massive infrastructure of piping, pumps, and water purification works. The cost of tap water is a small fraction of that of bottled water, often as little as 0.01%.
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Domestic water supply or system (DWS) is a comprehensive term for the potable water supply systems in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings.
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developed country, or advanced country, is used to categorize countries with developed economies in which the tertiary and quaternary sectors of industry dominate.
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tap is a valve for controlling the release of a liquid or gas. In the British Isles and normally in the Commonwealth the word is used for any everyday type of valve, particularly the fittings that control water supply to bathtubs and sinks. In the U.S.
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Filtration is the processe of using a filter to mechanically separate mixtures. Depending on the application, either one or both of the components may be isolated. Examples of filtration include A) a coffee filter to keep the coffee separate from the grounds and B) the use of HEPA
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Low alcohol beer (also, non-alcoholic beer, small beer, or small ale or near-beer) is beer with very low or no alcohol content. The vast majority of low alcohol beers are lagers, but there are to a lesser extent some ales.
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Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of grape juice.^[1] The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients.
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Apple cider is the name used especially in the United States and parts of Canada for a non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples by a process of pressing. It is more sour and cloudy than conventional apple juice, retaining the tart flavor of the apple pulp which is lost in
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