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What is actually in Sarsparilla?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although root beer is made from sassafras roots, sarsparilla is named from the root of its primary ingredient, the wild sarsparilla or Smilax ornata plant. According to a 2019 study in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, sarsparilla was believed to relieve arthritis and other rheumatic pain. Like many soft drinks, it started life as a patent medicine.

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What is actually in Sarsparilla?

• Roots from Smilax ornata plants
• Something hard that makes bar fights happen
• Sassafras roots
• Substances that were legal at the time, but not now