Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CAROTENE
carotene
(noun) yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
carotene (countable and uncountable, plural carotenes)
(organic chemistry) A class of tetraterpene plant pigments; they vary in colour from yellow, through orange to red, this colour originating in a chain of alternating single and double bonds.
(organic chemistry) Specifically, a number of isomers of tetraterpene hydrocarbons, C40H56, (especially beta-carotene), present in carrots etc, which are converted into vitamin A in the liver.
Synonyms
• E160 (when used as a food colouring)
Source: Wiktionary
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