With a climate as varied and extreme as India, the people require a myriad of options to keep their thirst appropriately quenched according to the weather conditions, varying from steaming hot drinks during winters to frosty cold drinks in summers. Different regions in the country serve drinks made with an eclectic assortment of ingredients including local spices, flavors and herbs. Available on the streets, as well as on the menus of posh hotels, these drinks add to the flavorful cuisine of India.
This is the consumption of drinks per capita per year in India in 2021 by drink type excluding water and juices.[1]
Drink type | Per capita consumption (liter) |
---|---|
Hot drinks | 70 |
Dairy drinks | 34 |
Soft drinks | 20 |
Bottled water | 6 |
Alcoholic drink | 4 |
Total | 134 |
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Both tea and coffee contain caffeine and tannin. Comparatiely, coffee has more caffeine and less tannin than tea, whereas tea has more tannin and less caffeine than coffee.
Further information: Indian tea culture |
Masala chai served with tea biscuits. India's most popular way to drink tea.
A cup of Darjeeling tea.
Butter tea or gur gur in the Ladakhi language, in a bowl; popular in Himalayan regions of India, particularly in Ladakh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh.
Cashew apples being squashed in Chorao, Goa, to be used in the preparation of feni.
Handia is a rice beer commonly made by the indigenous people in Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Desi daru is India's one of the cheapest factory made alcoholic drinks.
A bottle of Bangla liquor in Chinsurah, West Bengal, India.
The alphabetised list of native traditional drinks is as follows:
See also: Alcohol prohibition in India, Dry Days in India, and Kasauli Brewery |
Alphabetised list of non-traditional drinks in India.