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For decades, until the 2010s, the iconic Sioux City sarsaparilla bottle was sold in retail stores in the United States.. Sarsaparilla (UK: / ˌ s ɑːr s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə /, US also / ˌ s æ s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə / sas-pə-RIL-ə) [1] is a soft drink originally made from the vine Smilax ornata (also called 'sarsaparilla') or other species of Smilax such as Smilax officinalis. [2]
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make a soft drink called sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and ...
Aralia nudicaulis (commonly wild sarsaparilla, [3] false sarsaparilla, shot bush, small spikenard, wild liquorice, and rabbit root) is a species of flowering plant in the ivy family Araliaceae. It is native to northern and eastern North America.
Common names include sarsaparilla, [4] Honduran sarsaparilla, [4] and Jamaican sarsaparilla. [ 4 ] It is known in Spanish as zarzaparrilla , which is derived from the words zarza meaning "bramble" (from Basque sartzia "bramble"), and parrilla , meaning "little grape vine".
Smilax aristolochiifolia is native to Mexico and Central America. [17] Sarsaparilla is native to the Mesoamerica region, especially in Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala. [17] In North America, sarsaparilla originates in Southern Mexico, being found primarily in the states of Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán, [17] Nuevo León, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Quintana Roo. [16]
The analysis, published in the journal Frontiers in Toxicology, builds upon research published earlier this year, which identified more than 900 chemicals as being potential mammory carcinogens ...
In humans, liver damage can take years to develop and it may not have obvious signs. Along with commercially available sarsaparilla, sassafras remains an ingredient in use among hobby or microbrew enthusiasts. While sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer and is sometimes substituted with artificial flavors, natural ...
The World Health Organization has identified glyphosate as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" and a study published earlier this year showed that glyphosate raised the cancer risk of those exposed ...