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.
DIGESTIVES
Noun
digestives
plural of digestive
Source: Wiktionary
DIGESTIVE
Di*gest"ive, a. Etym: [F. digestif, L. digestivus.]
Definition: Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
– Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
Di*gest"ive, n.
1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.
2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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