Soft Drinks

Soft drinks

To make soft drinks, a manufacturer begins with a syrup. The syrup is made with sugar and flavourings from herbs, plant roots, bark, crushed fruit or berries. Citric acid and preservatives are added.

The syrup is mixed with purified water, which is then mixed with carbon dioxide gas inside a machine called a carbonator. The liquid is kept at a low temperature and under high pressure so that bubbles form.

Bottles or cans are filled with the liquid, and are then sealed by a different machine. Some machines can fill up to 2000 bottles or cans every minute.

Hot water is then sprayed onto the bottles or cans to cool them to room temperature. The drinks are labelled, packed into boxes and transported to the shops.

Go here for the Australian Soft Drink Association website. You'll find an illustrated processing line for making soft drinks. http://www.australianbeverages.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=ASP0002/ccms.r?Roxy=0x0002ea61&PageId=10053

This site discusses how soft drinks can help make kids fat! http://www.abc.net.au/health/minutes/stories/s300156.htm

If you use any information from this page acknowledge this source in your bibliography like this:
Soft drinks (2005). [Online], Available: www.kidcyber.com.au

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