What We Drink - Soft Drinks

Soft drinks are sometimes also known as ‘minerals'. They can be carbonated like Bubbles, or diluted (sometimes referred to as "cordial"), and they usually come in cans or bottles.

There lots of different kinds of soft drinks. You can get diet, low calorie and no-added-sugar soft drinks. Some drinks called ‘fortified drinks' provide extra vitamins and minerals, and are especially good for sports-mad people like Bubbles!

Dilute = a drink that needs water added to it

Regular = drinks made using sugar

Low calorie = these use low calorie ‘sweeteners' instead of sugar to make the taste sweet

Fortified = drinks that have extra vitamins or minerals added

Mixers = carbonated drinks that adults use to mix with alcoholic drinks

Most soft drinks contain these ingredients:

Water
Sugar or a sweetener
An acid to make it taste tangy (kind of like an orange or lemon) and to preserve its quality
A flavouring to give the drink its taste

Different soft drinks have different amounts of these ingredients:

Carbon dioxide, which is the gas that is added to make the drink fizzy
Fruit
Preservative
Colour

If you want to know all the ingredients of a soft drink, just read the label.

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