1 Puree tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers and scallions together in a food processor and season with herbs and spices of your choice to make the refreshing cold soup, gazpacho. 2  Add tomato slices to sandwiches and salads. 3  To keep things colorful, use yellow, green and purple tomatoes in addition to red ones.
After 500 BC, Hippocrates discovered the healing powers of water. He invented the practice of sieving water, and obtained the first bag filter, which was called the âHippocratic sleeveâ. The main purpose of the bag was to trap sediments that caused bad tastes or odours. In 300-200 BC, Rome built its first aqueducts.
Eventually, the medicinal quinine was tempered by soda water and sugar and patented in England in the 1850s as âtonic water.â It was developed for the American market in 1953 by the Schweppes Beverage Co. Originally, quinine was produced by soaking the bark of the South American cinchona tree and drunk as a tea. But the quinine alkaloid present in modern tonic water is the result of chemical extraction.