Ancient Mexicans Drank Alcoholic Milk to Stay Healthy Hannah Osborne - IBTimes
go to original September 20, 2014

Ancient Mexican Alcohol Also Worked As Nutrition Supplement (WochitGeneralNews)

An ancient civilization living in Mexico thousands of years ago drank an alcoholic probiotic milk they concocted from the sap of an agave plant to stay healthy, scientists have said.

People from Teotihuacan, the biggest city in the prehistory of Mexico, lived mostly on maize and beans. However, poor rainfall and the high altitude in which they lived often led to crop failures.

As a result, they had to consume a special alcoholic drink - fermented agave sap. According to Science magazine, this was a "distinctly mucus-y beverage" made from the sap of a mature agave plant, which was then left for several days to ferment.

The drink was known to have been popular among the Aztecs, but it was not known if it had been used in the earlier civilization in Teotihuacan.

Archaeologists studying the city, however, have since found several pottery samples that confirm the drink's existence in the city.

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