Historically, I hear about wine, beer and tea. I think I saw milk mentioned exactly once. When did non-alcoholic cold drinks - especially juice - become normal parts of our diets?

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I understand that for the most part people drank alcoholic beverages, but nowadays, alcohol is an occasional drink. A folk history claims that this is because only alcoholic beverages were safe, but that's frequently contradicted in this subreddit. Since non-alcoholic beverages were safe, why were they not consumed? Or were they consumed and just not brought up much?

I ask about juice in particular because fruit was everywhere, but seemed to mostly get turned into wine.

I'm most interested in Western Europe but this question extends well beyond that and I'm interested in any stories; my sub-Saharan African drink thread yielded only alcoholic beverages as well.

DontBAfraidOfTheEdge

There is a decent explaination about milk here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/21yhrq/when_did_humans_start_drinking_things_that_werent/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Fruit juice they mention but came much much later than the scope of that question credit to u/qweniden