{"id":1394,"date":"2011-07-09T00:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T07:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2012-11-28T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T10:07:08","slug":"why-carbonated-beverages-are-called-soft-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/why-carbonated-beverages-are-called-soft-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Carbonated Beverages Are Called \u201cSoft Drinks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Funny<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> why flavored carbonated beverages are called “soft drinks”.<\/p>\n

It turns out, soft drinks aren’t just flavored carbonated beverages.\u00a0 “Soft Drink” refers to nearly all beverages that do not contain significant amounts of alcohol (hard drinks).<\/p>\n

The term “soft drink” though is now typically used exclusively for flavored carbonated beverages.\u00a0 This is actually due to advertising.\u00a0 Flavored carbonated beverage makers were having a hard time creating national advertisements due to the fact that what you call their product varies from place to place.\u00a0 For instance, in parts of the United States and Canada, flavored carbonated beverages are referred to as “pop”; in other parts “soda”; in yet other parts “coke”; and there are a variety of other names commonly used as well.\u00a0 Then if we go international with the advertisements, in England these drinks are called “fizzy drinks”; in Ireland sometimes “minerals”.\u00a0 To account for the fact that they can’t refer to their product in the generic sense on national advertisements, because of these varied terms, these manufactures have chosen the term “soft drink” to be more or less a universal term for flavored carbonated beverages.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, according to a study done in 2006, most carbonated “soft” drinks actually do contain a little alcohol.\u00a0 In older methods of introducing the CO2 to the drink, this was resulting from natural fermentation, similar to how most beer gets its alcohol.\u00a0 However, with modern methods of introducing CO2 to the drink, this is not an issue; yet measurable amounts of alcohol remain.\u00a0 This is due to the fermentation of sugars in the non-sterile environment of the drink.\u00a0\u00a0 In some types of soda-pop, additional alcohol is also introduced due to the fact that alcohol is used in the preparation of some of the flavor extracts.\u00a0 However, before anyone starts campaigning to make soda-pop illegal for kids due to the alcohol content, it should be noted that a typical container of yogurt of similar volume to\u00a0 some amount of soda-pop, will contain about 2 times the amount of alcohol over the amount in the soda-pop.<\/p>\n

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*Note: this article was by request.\u00a0 If there is anything you\u2019d like to know, feel free to send me an email<\/a> and if I think it\u2019s something worth doing an article on, I\u2019ll do the research for you and write an article on it.<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Facts:<\/p>\n