Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
SORBIN
Sor"bin, n. (Chem.)
Definition: An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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