In the olden times, gold was believed to have medicinal properties, and if people were not hammering out jewels or minting coins from them, they eat them instead...yes, Virginia, people EAT and DRINK gold. Well, not bars of them, silly. Just food with pure gold trimmings. Diet of Kings? Apparently not. I stumbled upon this article in Wikipedia about an alcoholic drink called Goldschlager which had actual flakes of gold leaf wafting inside!
So how much would bottle of Goldschlager cost? Would it be priced, like, well... Gold?
No that much it seems. A single 70cl bottle of this inebriating drink would cost £ 20.89 according to TheDrinkshop.com. In fact, the flakes of gold floating inside does not even weigh a tenth of a gram and the total value is something like $3.33. It just so happened that Gold is the most malleable of all metals, hence it can be beaten into sheets thinner than onion skin and still amount to very little.
As for the health benefits. Nothing much really. It doesn't give you a glowing persona inasmuch as you want it to. Nor does it kill you with Gold poisoning. Methinks, everyone says Iron is good for the body right? Why can't they make drinks with flakes of Iron inside? That would be really beneficial for the blood!
Just stay away from big magnets though.
More Gold Trivia:
So how much would bottle of Goldschlager cost? Would it be priced, like, well... Gold?
No that much it seems. A single 70cl bottle of this inebriating drink would cost £ 20.89 according to TheDrinkshop.com. In fact, the flakes of gold floating inside does not even weigh a tenth of a gram and the total value is something like $3.33. It just so happened that Gold is the most malleable of all metals, hence it can be beaten into sheets thinner than onion skin and still amount to very little.
As for the health benefits. Nothing much really. It doesn't give you a glowing persona inasmuch as you want it to. Nor does it kill you with Gold poisoning. Methinks, everyone says Iron is good for the body right? Why can't they make drinks with flakes of Iron inside? That would be really beneficial for the blood!
Just stay away from big magnets though.
More Gold Trivia:
- Gold flakes can also be found on two other drinks (Goldwasser and Gold Strike)
- Gold is approved as a food additive in the EU (E175 in the Codex Alimentarius).
- It is estimated that all the Gold ever mined in history would make a cube measuring 66 feet on all sides or 8000 cubic meters
- One of the most famous gold incidents in history was the Hajj caravan of Mansa Kankan Musa, the 14th century emperor of the African Mali Empire. It was noted that Mansa Musa was accompanied by a caravan consisting of 60,000 men including a personal retinue of 12,000 slaves, all of whom were clad in brocade and Persian silk. He also brought with him 80 to 100 camels loaded with 300 pounds of gold each. The emperor rode on horseback and was directly preceded by 500 slaves, each of whom carried a four-pound staff of solid gold.
His generosity was also legendary for along the way, he caused the price of Gold to go down by flooding Cairo with so much Gold that the resulting inflation took a decade to subside. - On May 3, 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a Gold Maple Leaf coin with a face value of One Million Dollars,[1] though the gold content was worth over $2 million at the time. It measures 50 cm in diameter by 3 cm thick and weighs 100 kilograms, with a purity of 99.999%
- Gold can be made into thread and used in embroidery.
- Gold is used as the reflective layer on some high-end CDs.
- Automobiles may use gold for heat insulation. McLaren uses gold foil in the engine compartment of its F1 model
- In nature, gold most often occurs in its native state (that is, as a metal), though usually alloyed with silver. Native gold contains usually eight to ten percent silver, but often much more — alloys with a silver content over 20% are called electrum. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity becomes lower.
Source: Wikipedia
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