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 * __Carbonated Water is the first ingredient listed on a soda label__**
 * Interesting Facts on Soda:**

- Considered a soft drink because it does not contain alcohol.

- People assume the stimulation of taste buds is due to carbonation. Rather it is due to the presence of added dilute acids.

- A carbonated soft drink is a gas liquid solution.


 * How is carbon dioxide added to water:**

- In the beginning sulfurin acid was added to marble dust and the carbonic acid was bubbled through water to achieve the carbonations. When John Matthews designed and began selling an apparatus to local drugstore to achieve this process, the soda fountain era began. The public began their to acquire their taste for carbonated beverages.

- Today high pressure CO2 gas is bubbled through water.


 * How is the carbonated water made into soda???????**

_ Commercial soda is made through a partnershp between the owner of the recipe for the syrup (Pepsico) and a local bottler.

- The formulation of the syrup for Pepsi and Diet Pepsi is a closely guarded secret.

- It is distributed to local bottlers who blend the syrup with the carbonated water and bottle the mixture into cans or bottles.

Quality Control of Product

- Each bottler is responsible for maintaing a certain gas assay of the solution - . Individual bottlers mainly rely on manual testing and calculation of a temperature/pressure graphs to determine CO2 concentraion. - Newer technologyis now available spectroscopy in real time measurements to continually monitor the CO2 concentration.

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