The seeds within the pods are removed and allowed to ferment. Roasting of the beans and further production then make cocoa butter. Aztecs drinked chocolatl, which was spicy and bitter. Adding sugar made the drink more palatable for Europeans. Rapidly absorbed from the GI tract, it can easily pass the blood-brain barrier.
Ethanol is a nonselective central nervous system depressant.
Climbing shrubs with tendril-bearing stems. Fruit a berry. Wine is fermented fruit juice, typically from grapes. Wine is an ancient beverage, produced by Egyptians, Greeks, Romans. Louis Pasteur made his name initially in enology, so use of pasteurization.