THE BEVERAGE OF THE PEOPLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 273, 17 November 1899, Page 6

THE BEVERAGE OF THE PEOPLE.

Let us glance at the ordinary breakfast beverages of the people.

Tea, even if properly infused, is only a stimulant. It is not a nourishing beverage, and as usually decocted is wash}', trashy, and deleterious.

Coffee, even when of the best, and prepared in perfection as you will find in the East, where Mahommedans are forbidden by their religion to use alcohol, is only a cardiac or heart stimulant. It increases for a short time the power of that organ without being- in any sense of the word a nourishing1 beverage.

Cocoa. —The ordinary cocoa is not by any means a nourishing1 beverage. Its good qualities either m the English or foreign varieties are smothered in starch and sugar that induce and promote indigestion.

Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa is a nourishing beverage, containing four great restorers of vitality, Cocoa, Kola, Hops and Malt. .Mi stands out as a builder up of tissues, a promoter of vigour, and in short it has all the factors which make robust hfcalth. Being a deliciously flavoured beverage it pleases the most fastidious palate. Its active powers of diastase give tone to the stomach, and promote the flow of gastric juice, and however indigestible the food taken with it at any meal, it acts as a solvent and assimilative.

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