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.
DIASTASE
Etymology
Noun
diastase (plural diastases)
(enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes which catalyse the breakdown of starch into maltose; mostly amylase
Source: Wiktionary
Di"a*stase, n. Etym: [Gr. diastase. Cf. Diastasis.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Note: The name is more particularly applied to that ferment formed during the germination of grain, as in the malting of barley; but it is also occasionally used to designate the amylolytic ferment contained in animal fluids, as in the saliva.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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