Answer:
I am heavy forward but backward I'm not.
I am a delicious way of representing data.
I'm a word that's hardly there. Take away my start and I'm an herbal flair. What am I?
Every night I'm told what to do, and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold. What am I?
I am a beverage named after a stick.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.