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.
TROPAEOLIN
Etymology
Noun
tropaeolin (countable and uncountable, plural tropaeolins)
Any of several orange dyes of very complex composition: tropaeolin O (acid orange 6, chrysoine resorcinol), tropaeolin OO (acid orange 5), or tropaeolin OOO (acid orange 7).
Source: Wiktionary
Tro*pæ"o*lin, n. (Chem.)
Definition: A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropæolum).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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