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Tonic water is known to cause fixed eruptions, which is a type of skin reaction to drugs, [15] due to the quinine content. Various scientific journals have reported that repeated intake of tonic water can cause fixed eruptions with varying severity, with one reporting the onset of Stevens-Johnson syndrome . [ 16 ]
Quinine is a flavor component of tonic water and bitter lemon drink mixers. On the soda gun behind many bars, tonic water is designated by the letter "Q" representing quinine. [27] Tonic water was initially marketed as a means of delivering quinine to consumers in order to offer anti-malarial protection.
Dubonnet was first sold in 1846 by Joseph Dubonnet, in response to a competition run by the French Government to find a way of persuading French Foreign Legionnaires in North Africa to drink quinine. [4] Quinine combats malaria but is very bitter. Ownership was taken over by Pernod Ricard in 1976.
Quinquina is an aromatised wine, a variety of apéritif.Traditionally quinquinas contain cinchona, which provides quinine, introduced to Europe from Peru in the 17th century by Spanish missionaries, [citation needed] and used both in treating malaria [1] and as the principal ingredient in tonic water.
The apéritif became popular during the early 1960s after its appearance on the Italian television advertising show Carosello.The series of commercials, first starring Ferruccio De Ceresa, and from 1966 Ernesto Calindri, showed the actor sipping Cynar while sitting at a table placed in the middle of a busy street, urging consumers to drink Cynar "against the wear-and-tear of modern life".
Aged samples, especially if exposed to light, become yellow and later brown. Quinoline is only slightly soluble in cold water but dissolves readily in hot water and most organic solvents. [4] Quinoline itself has few applications, but many of its derivatives are useful in diverse applications. A prominent example is quinine, an alkaloid found ...
In tropical British colonies gin was used to mask the bitter flavour of quinine, which was the only effective anti-malarial compound. Quinine was dissolved in carbonated water to form tonic water ; the resulting cocktail is gin and tonic , although modern tonic water contains only a trace of quinine as a flavouring.