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  2. Vodka - Wikipedia

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    Vodka can also be used in cooking and various recipes are improved by the addition of vodka or rely on it as a key ingredient. Vodka sauce is a pasta sauce made from tomato sauce, cream, and vodka that gained popularity in the 1970s. Vodka can be used in baking as a substitute for water: pie crusts can be made flakier with vodka. [63]

  3. Scotch whisky - Wikipedia

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    A label may carry a distillation date or a bottling date. Whisky does not mature once bottled, so if no age statement is provided, one may calculate the age of the whisky if both the distillation date and bottling date are given. [38] Labels may also carry various declarations of filtration techniques or final maturation processes.

  4. Soy sauce - Wikipedia

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    Soy sauce (Sinhala: සෝයා සෝස්) is a popular food product used in Sri Lanka and is a major ingredient used in the nationally popular street food dish kottu. [66] Soy sauce has largely been produced by the Sri Lankan Chinese community but its production has also spread to other communities in Sri Lanka.

  5. Processing aid - Wikipedia

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    Under the United Kingdom food labelling regulations, a "processing aid" is defined as follows: [8] "Processing aid" means any substances not consumed as a food by itself, intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or their ingredients, to fulfil a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing, and which may result in the unintentional but technically ...

  6. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. [1] Stress is a type of psychological pain.Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment.

  7. Stanley Schachter - Wikipedia

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    In his theory he states that emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cognitive label. A person's experience of an emotion stems from the mental awareness of the body's physical arousal and the explanation one attaches to this arousal.

  8. Amphetamine - Wikipedia

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    Amphetamine [note 2] (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

  9. Maturity (psychological) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, maturity can be operationally defined as the level of psychological functioning (measured through standards like the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) one can attain, after which the level of psychological functioning no longer increases much with age.