Tonic Water 12L

Quinine powder is so bitter that British officials stationed in early 19th century India and other tropical posts mixed the powder with soda and sugar, and tonic water was created. The first commercial tonic water was produced in 1858. The mixed drink gin and tonic also originated in British colonial India, when the British mixed their medicinal quinine tonic with gin.

A new study finds that the two compounds, chloroquine and quinine, added to tonic water may be an effective treatment for allergic asthma.