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Coffee
Brewed beverage
A drink brewed from ground, roasted coffee beans. Dark and bitter, it stimulates people because of its caffeine, though coffee without caffeine is sold too.
Wikidata · Photo: Julius Schorzman, CC BY-SA 2.0
Food · Curated list
Drinks: the 30 most written about
Coffee, Tea, Milk and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
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- 2026-09-25
Drinks, ranked
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the drink's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Tea
Brewed beverage made from tea leaves
A fragrant drink made by steeping fresh or cured leaves of Camellia sinensis in hot or boiling water. The plant is an evergreen shrub of East Asia that began in the borderlands of northern Myanmar, northeast India and southwestern China. Tea stimulates people mainly because of its caffeine.
Wikidata · Photo: Haneburger, Public domain
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Beer
Alcoholic drink made from fermented cereal grains
An alcoholic drink made by brewing and fermenting starches from cereal grain, most often malted barley, though oats, rice, maize and wheat are also used. The grain is mashed to turn its starch into sugars, which dissolve in water to make wort.
Wikidata · Photo: Len Rizzi (photographer), Public domain
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Wine
Alcoholic drink made from grapes
An alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice, produced and drunk in many parts of the world in a great range of styles, shaped by the grape variety, the growing conditions, how the vines are grown and how the wine is made.
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Coca-Cola
Cola soft drink
Also called Coke, a cola soft drink made by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013 its products were sold in more than 200 countries and territories, and people drank more than 1.8 billion servings of the company's drinks every day.
Wikidata · Photo: Ralf Roletschek, Public domain
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Juice
Naturally occurring liquid present in fruits and vegetables
A drink made by extracting or pressing the natural liquid in vegetables and fruit. The word can also mean liquids flavoured with concentrate or with other biological foods such as seafood or meat, clam juice for example.
Wikidata · Photo: Leslie Seaton from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY 2.0
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Vodka
Clear distilled alcoholic beverage
A clear, distilled alcoholic drink whose varieties come from Russia and Poland.
Wikidata · Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Whisky
Distilled alcoholic beverage
Also spelled whiskey, a spirit made from fermented grain mash; different kinds use different grains, among them wheat, rye, corn and barley.
Wikidata · Photo: Benjamin Thompson, CC BY 3.0
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Drinking water
Water safe for consumption
Also called potable water, water safe to take in, whether drunk as it is or consumed through the food it is used to make. When it comes from taps it is also called tap water.
Wikidata · Photo: Walter J. Pilsak , Waldsassen, Germany, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Pepsi
Soft drink by PepsiCo
A fizzy cola soft drink, the flagship product of PepsiCo. In 2023 it was the world's second most valuable soft drink brand, after Coca-Cola, its long-time rival in what have been called the "cola wars".
Wikidata · Photo: Chris Woodrich, Public domain
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Champagne
French sparkling wine
A sparkling wine that began, and is made, in France's Champagne wine region under the appellation's AOC rules, which require particular practices in the vineyard, grapes only from designated places within the region, particular ways of pressing them, and a second fermentation in the bottle to make the wine fizz.
Wikidata · Photo: Taken on September 22, 2005, CC BY 2.0
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Green tea
Unoxidized tea
Tea made from leaves and buds of Camellia sinensis that have not been through the withering and oxidation that produce black and oolong teas. It began in China in the late 1st millennium BC, and its production has since spread to other East Asian countries.
Wikidata · Photo: Kanko* from Nagasaki, Japan, CC BY 2.0
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Lemonade
Lemon-flavored drink
A sweetened drink tasting of lemon, still or fizzy; the fizzy kind is sometimes called lemon soda. There are many kinds around the world.
Wikidata · Photo: User:Polylerus, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cocktail
Combination of spirits and non alcoholic ingredients
A mixed drink, usually with alcohol: most often spirits, one or several, combined with bitters, shrubs, tonic water, flavoured syrups, juices or other ingredients.
Wikidata · Photo: Dennis Mojado, CC BY 2.0
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Cider
Fermented alcoholic beverage from apple juice
An alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. Most apple varieties can make cider, but cider apples are the ones most prized.
Wikidata · Photo: Mikel Arrazola, CC BY 3.0
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Sake
Alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin
Also spelled saké or saki, and called Japanese rice wine, an alcoholic drink from Japan made by fermenting rice polished to remove the bran. Despite the name, sake, like other East Asian rice wines, is brewed more like beer, turning starch into sugars that then ferment, a process called multiple parallel fermentation; wine, by contrast, gets its alcohol from fermenting the sugar already in fruit, usually grapes.
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Brandy
Spirit produced by distilling wine
A spirit made by distilling wine, usually 35–60% alcohol by volume, and usually drunk after a meal as a digestif.
Wikidata · Photo: Szalony kucharz, Public domain
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Buttermilk
Fermented dairy drink
A fermented drink made from milk by adding lactic acid bacteria. Traditionally it was the almost fat-free milk left after churning butter from cream, which natural bacteria cultured before and during churning, giving it a slightly sour taste and keeping it from spoiling.
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Tequila
Distilled alcoholic beverage from Mexico
A spirit distilled from the blue agave plant, made mainly in Jalisco, a state in central western Mexico: in its Jaliscan Highlands, and around the town of Tequila, which lies 65 km (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara.
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Kvass
Fermented low-alcoholic beverage
A cloudy drink made from cereals, fermented and low in alcohol, with a sweet and sour taste.
Wikidata · Photo: Mr.Icon ( Mricon ), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cognac
Style of brandy produced in France
A kind of brandy named after the commune of Cognac, France, and made in the departments around it, Charente-Maritime and Charente, in an officially designated wine region.
Wikidata · Photo: ChickenFalls, Public domain
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Coconut milk
Liquid extracted from coconuts
A plant milk extracted from the grated flesh of mature coconuts. Its opaque, milky-white look and rich taste come from its high oil content, mostly saturated fat.
Wikidata · Photo: Meursault2004, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cappuccino
Drink made with espresso coffee and steamed milk
A coffee drink based on espresso, traditionally made with steamed milk and topped with a layer of milk foam.
Wikidata · Photo: Original: Blackcat / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Hot chocolate
Warm chocolate beverage in milk or water
Also called hot cocoa or drinking chocolate, a hot drink of cocoa powder or melted or shaved chocolate with heated water or milk. It is usually sweetened, with sugar for instance, and often topped with marshmallows or whipped cream.
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Liqueur
Alcoholic beverage
Also called a cordial, an alcoholic drink of spirits with added flavourings such as spices, herbs, fruits and sugar. Often served with dessert or after it, liqueurs are usually very sweet and not aged, apart from resting during production, where needed, to let their flavours blend.
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Soft drink
Sweetened non-alcoholic drink, often carbonated
A drink without alcohol, usually carbonated and usually with added sweetener, flavoured naturally, artificially or with a mix of both.
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Mineral water
Drinking water from a mineral spring
Water from a mineral spring, holding various minerals such as sulfur compounds and salts. Usually still, it can also be sparkling (carbonated/effervescent).
Wikidata · Photo: Walter J. Pilsak , Waldsassen, Germany, CC BY-SA 3.0
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How this list was made
Every Wikidata item that is a drink, or a kind of drink, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
Removed by hand
Wikidata files these under this list's query, but they are not what the list is about:
- alcoholic beverage — A category of drinks rather than a drink.
- liquor — A category of drinks rather than a drink.
- yogurt — A food, eaten more than drunk.
- breast milk — Nourishment for infants rather than a drink.
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
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