Millions of Andean residents have the habit of chewing coca leaves to refresh themselves. They mixed coca leaves with lime and chewed them to obtain active alkaloids in the leaves. But today's coca leaf has become a "flower of evil", and the alkaloids in it have also become stimulants to stimulate people's central nervous system, which is another story.

Similarly, in many parts of Asia-Pacific, when people chew betel nuts, they also use lime to obtain the effective ingredients of betel nuts, so that they can taste the taste of betel nuts better. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, people believe that betel nut can both refresh and nourish. When chewing, people wrap the lime slurry with betel nut leaves and put it in the mouth with betel nut to enjoy it. Chewing betel nut has become a tradition in this area, and many customs and even legends are related to this tradition.

Why should eat areca add lime?

/kloc-in the 0 th and 9 th centuries, plantations in Yemen began to cut down coffee trees and plant tea trees instead. Chewing tea has gradually become the fashion of the whole society. Chewing tea began in a special lounge (Ma Farragar). As a social lubricant, Arabic tea has three functions at the same time: refreshing, improving Shu Tai and spiritual desire.

If food represents people's physiological needs, then soup drinks are inseparable from people's spiritual life, and even full of rituals, social politics, religion and mystery. Alcoholic beverage is the earliest social beverage for human beings. People soak their favorite plants in water, and the process of drinking soup varies with social resources and personality, and is carefully interpreted.

In the South Pacific, the custom of drinking kava is still popular. In Fiji, soldiers get a can of kava pepper. It is said that this will make them more agile and relaxed.

In17th century, the indigenous people of Andilaz, Ma 'ao, Piapoc and Yavita along the Altabazpo River in southern Venezuela all adopted Guarana. People bake and grind the fruits of this vine, mix them with cassava flour, knead them into dough, and knead them into flour sticks to dry for later use. In order to make drinks, the local people use the hyoid bone of walrus fish growing in the Amazon River as a small scraper to scrape off the powder from the flour stick and melt it in hot or cold water for drinking. Anthropologists pointed out that the Andila people believed that Guarana gave them the energy they needed for long-distance hunting, so that they were no longer trapped by hunger and fatigue.

Guarana grew up in Venezuela and northern Brazil. People use its fruit as the main formula to produce a series of energy drinks, including all-out, fearless, passionate, flying and other famous brands. In Brazil, Antarctic Guarana beverage is very popular, and it is said that its sales volume is second only to cola.

15 16, Spanish explorer Juan Diaz de Solis went upstream along the La Plata River and came to the Guarani tribe. Since historical records, this tribe has been frying tea soup with another Ilex plant, which is mainly used for shamanism rituals. This refreshing drink is Paraguay tea, also known as Paraguay tea. As Spanish conquerors followed Diaz to this land, Paraguayan tea became more and more popular among the colonists. After the arrival of Jesuit missionaries, they stole the technology of planting wild madai trees. They found that the seeds swallowed by toucans need to be picked up and excreted through the intestines before they can germinate and take root. After discovering this secret, artificial planting became possible.

With the continuous expansion of trade network, yerba mate has also spread to other parts of South America, and it is still a very popular social drink. Yerba mate put it in his hollowed-out gourd with a metal straw and filtered out the broken leaves.

Messi likes yerba mate very much. Mei also spoke out before, which worried many people. Later, the frequency of vomiting decreased. It is said that the problem of vomiting was solved by a recipe of an expert named Beaucert. In addition to the change of recipes, Messi also fell in love with drinking tea for health. Yerba mate, of course, who has been photographed with yerba mate many times.

Coffee, like tea, is also a favorite caffeine beverage for human beings. The history of coffee can be traced back to Abyssinia (today's Ethiopian plateau) in the 9th century. It spread from Abyssinia to Yemen at the southern tip of Arabian Peninsula via the Derman Strait, and was first planted in Mocha, a coastal mountainous area. Then Sufi accepted coffee as an exciting drink. In the16th century, cafes of all sizes were opened in Cairo, Istanbul and other major cities in the Middle East.

Coffee was introduced to Italy in 16 14 and to France in 1644. 1720, there were 380 cafes in Paris alone. Montesquieu, a famous French social critic, pointedly pointed out: "Coffee has become the fashion in Paris. The owner of the coffee shop knows how to make coffee, so that the guests who enter the store can grow their wisdom after drinking it. When the guests left the store, everyone felt that their brains were good, at least four times better than when they entered the store. "

Today, coffee is still popular all over the world and has become a necessity for migrant workers to stay up late to refresh themselves.

These plants are loved by people, some come from religious beliefs, some are needed by war, and some are refreshing. But now, they have become the "national drinks" that are popular all over the world. Health tea after meals, a necessity for migrant workers, has played an indispensable role in our lives.

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