Plant Stimulants: Caffeine-Caffeinated Beverages Flashcards
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Caffeinated Beverages
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- Coffee from Arabian region, tea from China, chocolate from South America
- Alkaloid-Caffeine-diuretic and stimulant
- Theobromine-stronger diuretic, calming agent, calms an overactive child
2
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Coffee
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- Tree
- Ethiopia
- Two-seeded red berry
- Seeds, “beans”-beverage and medicinal plant
3
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Tea
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- Shrub
- Southeast Asia, cultivated in China
- New, young leaves
- Green tea from fresh picked leaves, black tea from dried leaves oxidize the bitter leaf tannins and phenols
4
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Yerba Mate
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- Tree
- Holly family
- South America
- Tea-like dried leaves powdered
- Severed in a tradition cup made from a dried gourd
5
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Guayusa or Amazonian Holly
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- Tree
- Amazonian forest
- Peru and Ecuador
- Highest known caffeine content
- Achuar Jivaro people
- Adverse effects-severe headache, bloodshot eyes, mild hallucinations
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Cocoa, Cacao, Chocolate Tree
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- Tree
- South America, cultivated in west Africa
- Flowers-large pod-like fruit
- “Beans” are contained within the fruit
- Mature fruit-chemical changes, impart distinctive colour, odour, and flavour cocoa
- Butter from cocoa powder
- Chocolate from coa liquor and cocoa butter
- Mayan, Aztecs-Aphrodisiac
- Only wealthy could afford it
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Cola or Kola
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- Tree
- Humid tropical rain forests of west-central Africa
- Sterculaciaceae family
- Cultivated in west Africa, Brazil, and Caribbean
- Fruit contains seeds or beans
- Cola beans made into thick syrup for “soft drinks”
- Chewed as oral stimulant in Africa
- Mild Stimulant, relieve hunger pangs, relief of various ailments
- Traditional spiritual and divination ceremonies
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Guarana
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- Climbing plant
- South America
- Satere-Maue tribe
- Red-black seeds
- Cultivated as a shrub in Manaus in Amazonian Brazil
- “National drink” of Brazil
- Teas and herbal mixtures
- “High energy” beverages-energy boost attributable to largely to the high caffeine
