Tonic Water: Once Medicine, Today a Delicious Drink There are perhaps no other soft drinks that are so divisive than tonic water. Some drink it quite often, others just occasionally and as part of cocktails. And some people won’t touch it. Its taste is the main culprit for this divide. Real tonic water contains quinine, which was once the only medicine used to treat malaria. And it is bitter, extremely bitter. This is one of the reasons tonic water has just a very small amount of it – up to 83 ppm (parts per million), according to FDA regulation. But is tonic water good for your health? Does downing up to 20 milligrams of quinine in every glass without health consequences? The short history of tonic water tonic water malaria We have the British Empire to thank for the invention of tonic water. Stationed in India in the 19th century, officers found quinine – the general cure and prophylactic to malaria – hard to swallow on its own. So, to make it easier to go down, they mixed the bi...
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