Carbonated Drinks facts
While investigating facts about Carbonated Drinks Side Effects and Carbonated Drinks List, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The fizzy sensation on your tongue from carbonated drinks is not caused by the tiny bubbles popping; the fizz is our actual taste of carbon dioxide.
how carbonated drinks are made?
In North America and India, 'lemonade' is not a carbonated soft drink, but is actually made from lemon juice, water and sugar.
What carbonated drinks do to your body?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what carbonated drinks are good for you. Here are 23 of the best facts about Carbonated Drinks Bad and Carbonated Drinks And Diverticulitis I managed to collect.
what's carbonated drinks?
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An Egg Cream is a beverage consisting of milk, carbonated water, and flavored syrup. The drink contains neither eggs nor cream.
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About Saturators. Saturators were popular in communist Russia. They would dispense sodas, water, carbonated juices, etc. However instead of cans, the drink was dispensed into a reusable glass tied to a chain which you had to wash before each use.
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A 'Codd-neck bottle', a type of bottle used to store carbonated drinks that is sealed by a glass marble. 'Vintage' bottles are now relatively rare because they were often smashed by children to retrieve the marble inside.
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Carbonated drinks have been tried in space, but are not favored due to changes in belching caused by microgravity; without gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach, burping results in a kind of vomiting called "wet burping"
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Lemonade is a traditionally carbonated drink in the UK, while it is traditionally a flat drink in the US.
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Circle K's exclusive Froster slushie drinks are carbonated in the United States, but not in Canada.
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The KGB tried to posion the President of Afghanistan. Fortunately he survived because the carbonation of the Coca Cola he was drinking, diluted the toxin.
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When you swallow your food, you also swallow small amounts of air. When you drink soda, or other carbonated beverages, you also get lots of air in your stomach. The best, and easiest, way to get rid of all of this air is to burp!
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Scientists discovered that certain types of food such as mint, fruit and caramelized chocolate may alter mosquito’s sensitivity to a carbon dioxide and potentially save the victim from mosquito’s bite. People that like to drink beer are especially attractive to mosquitoes.
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About the "Mikey Story" (pop rocks & soda myth) "Rumors became so bad that the FDA even set up a hot line in Seattle (WA) for people to call to dispel the rumor and assure parents that the candy was safe for children and it would not cause the stomach to explode if mixed with carbonated drinks."
Why carbonated drinks are not good for teeth?
You can easily fact check why carbonated drinks are unhealthy by examining the linked well-known sources.
Lemonade in the US is different from the UK, where it is a carbonated soft drink
Carbonated (fizzy) milk is a popular drink in Asia - source
In the early 00s, there was a drink called eMoo: carbonated milk - source
About Orbitz, a now defunct "texturally enhanced alternative" to carbonated drinks.
Doses of caffeine equivalent to the amount normally found in standard servings of tea, coffee and carbonated soft drinks appear to have no diuretic action. - source
When were carbonated drinks invented?
In 1880, Hiram Codd, the inventor of the carbonated drink bottle with a cinched neck, a marble and a rubber washer, instigated the idea of a bottle exchange in London. Agents charged a small fee on each bottle for providing this service (one penny per each 144 bottles).
How carbonated drinks are bad for you?
Carbonated drinks 'burn' because they trigger pain sensors in the nasal cavity; the same as mustard and horseradish. Carbonation also trips cells in the tongue that detect sourness.
San Pellegrino has smaller bubbles than Perrier. Perrier also is naturally carbonated which is why there isn't a distinctly salty taste when you drink it the next day.
Bottled water surpassed carbonated soft drinks to become the largest beverage category by volume in the United States in 2016
Even non-carbonated drinks in aluminium cans are pressurized. The internal pressure makes the cans less likely to buckle. For juices, nitrogen is added to increase the internal pressure.
The term "soft drink" has nothing to do with the texture of carbonated water. It just so happens that sodas are the most popular drinks that are not alcoholic (i.e. "hard").
