Sarsaparilla is a carbonated soft drink originally made from the native Central American plant smilax ornata. In Spanish the plant is known as zarzaparrilla. Traditionally it was made with sassafras root as well as sarsaparilla root.
Sarsaparilla root has been used commercially as a foaming ingredient and flavoring in root beer and other soft rinks for almost 2 centuries and is a traditional ingredient of ”root beer”. Root beer is an original American soft drink, first made by indigenous peoples of the New World.
Sarsaparillas were used in folk medicine in their homelands before entering international trade in the 1530s. They came initially from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Until it went out of favor in the late nineteenth century sarsaparilla was in widespread use as a cure-all and tonic, especially for syphilis.
Charles E. Hires first experimented with sarsaparilla in his Philadelphia pharmacy in 1869, sold root beer made with sarsaparilla as a cold drink at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 in Philadelphia and organized his own company in 1890.
Sarsaparilla soft drink
Beverage is a liquid for drinking; drink; usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as an intoxicating beverage. While the history is a systematic accounts of events particularly of those affecting a nation, institution science or art, and usually connected with philosophical explanation of their causes. In this case the history of beverage means that the systematic account about the development of beverage.
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