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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 Sarsaparilla (UK: / ˌ s ɑːr s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə /, US also / ˌ s æ s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə / sas-pə-RIL-ə) [1] is a soft drink originally made from the vine Smilax ornata (also called 'sarsaparilla') or other species of Smilax such as Smilax officinalis.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]
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]
Smilax glabra, sarsaparilla, [2] is a plant species in the genus Smilax.It is native to China, the Himalayas, and Indochina. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]S. glabra is a traditional medicine in Chinese herbology, whence it is also known as tufuling (土茯苓) or chinaroot, china-root, and china root (a name it shares with the related S. china).
Sarsaparilla often refers to the sarsaparilla soft drink, made from Smilax plants. Sarsaparilla may also refer to: Biology. Several species of plants, of the genus ...
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 ...
Sarsasapogenin was first isolated in 1914 from Sarsaparilla root. [2] Although it was known to have three oxygen atoms, of which only one is a hydroxyl group, the structure of the side chain remained unclear for many years.