So I was drinking some generic grocery store 'cola' earlier and the can said 'no sodium' And sure enough, it was listed as zero on the nutrition label. How can you have soda without sodium??
There was a time when fizzy refreshment drink was made on the spot by mixing some soda to lemonade. The reaction of soda (a base) to the fruit juice (an acid) resulted in release of CO2 and a bubbly fizz. This drink was made using soda, so it was called soda, soda pop, or things like that.
Later when it became easier to just pump the drink full of CO2 from a canister under pressure, the name had stuck.
Sodium is an element. It's a highly reactive metal that explodes* in water. You don't want *that* in your cola.
*it reacts with the water releasing hydrogen which mixes with oxygen and explodes from the heat of the reaction. A byproduct is sodium hydroxide or "lye", the alkali that will burn you just like acid but with a ph of 14 instead of 1 or 2...
You probably know this stuff, tis basic ;) They use sodium in ads to actually mean sodium chloride, salt...
Well, yeah. But they just call it 'sodium' on the nutrition labels. I think perhaps because sodium chloride isn't the only sodium compound found in food. I guess I was asking because I've never before heard of a soft drink that didn't have some sodium of some type in it -- even the diet colas tend to have zeros everywhere but the sodium line when it comes to the nutrition label.
Well, you can carbonate by forcing CO2 gas into solution - that's what we do with beer when we keg it instead of bottling it. (Bottled homebrew is carbonated by adding a bit of sugar to the brew, so the yeast eats it and makes CO2, by the way, not chemically carbonated.)
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Date: 2007-07-07 04:45 am (UTC)There was a time when fizzy refreshment drink was made on the spot by mixing some soda to lemonade. The reaction of soda (a base) to the fruit juice (an acid) resulted in release of CO2 and a bubbly fizz. This drink was made using soda, so it was called soda, soda pop, or things like that.
Later when it became easier to just pump the drink full of CO2 from a canister under pressure, the name had stuck.
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Date: 2007-07-07 11:29 am (UTC)Try pouring lemonade over just a tiny bit of Baking soda in your glass...
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Date: 2007-07-07 03:20 pm (UTC)You don't want *that* in your cola.
*it reacts with the water releasing hydrogen which mixes with oxygen
and explodes from the heat of the reaction. A byproduct is sodium
hydroxide or "lye", the alkali that will burn you just like acid
but with a ph of 14 instead of 1 or 2...
You probably know this stuff, tis basic ;) They use sodium in ads to actually
mean sodium chloride, salt...
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Date: 2007-07-07 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 05:58 pm (UTC)