Recovery beverage
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A recovery beverage is a consumer beverage that contains nutrients, vitamins, and energy purported to help the body recover from any physiologically strenuous activity. Traditionally these activities include exercise, travel, and the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
History
The history of recovery beverages dates back to the earliest use of alcohol. A number of folk remedies have survived since ancient times, most notably the hair of the dog. Other remedies including consumption of almonds, honey, and tomato juice have been around for centuries. The ancient Romans, on the authority of Pliny the Elder, favored raw owl eggs or fried canary. By 1938, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel provided a hangover remedy in the form of a mixture of Coca-Cola and milk (Coca-Cola itself having been invented, by some accounts, as a hangover remedy). Alcoholic writer Ernest Hemingway relied on tomato juice and beer. Certain mixtures were developed specifically for the purpose. The "Black Velvet" consists of equal parts champagne and flat Guinness Stout, while the "Prairie Oyster" restorative, introduced at the 1878 Paris World Exposition, calls for raw egg yolk mixed with Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper. A 1957 survey by a Wayne State University folklorist found widespread belief in the efficacy of heavy fried foods, tomato juice and sexual activity.
Ingredients
Common ingredients used in recovery beverages are N-Acetylcysteine, electrolytes, vitamins, and other antioxidants. Many recovery beverages also include caffeine.
