Carbonated drink is known to us in many ways as soda water, seltzer water, club soda, fizzy water and club soda. This is the water into which the gas called carbon dioxide would be dissolved under the pressure. The process of adding the carbon dioxide water is called the carbonation. The resultant carbonated water would be effervescent. The carbonated water is the definite and the defining ingredient found in all the carbonated soft drinks that we consume. 

The soft drink is also called coke, pop, soda, tonic, seltzer, lolly water, carbonated beverage, soda pop, sparkling water and mineral. The soft drink is a beverage that contains simply the water that is generally carbonated. The name soft drink is because it is contrasted to the traditional hard drinks or alcoholic beverages. Though there is very small amount of alcohol could be present in the soft drinks as well, this content would be much less, like about 0.5% of the total content. It is much lesser than that of the alcoholic beverages.

There would be a flavoring agent or sweetener that plays a vital role in giving the overall taste of the soft drink. The sweetener could be combined with many of the elements like sugar, fruit juices and high-fructose corn syrup etc. and sometimes the combination of such content also is used. In case of the diet drinks, the sweeteners are not generally used and they are replaced with the sugar substitutes. The sweeteners are also available for the commercial and domestic usage in the form of soft drink syrups.

Soft drinks are good to have for the intensive and soft flavor it gives right after it touches the tongue. However, having more and more soft drinks would affect the health in many ways, because of the preservatives, colorings and other harm ingredients used in these drinks. In some of the drinks it is also usual to mix the caffeine content that is not good for health when taken in excessive content. Most of the soft drinks are served and consumed chilled, at least in the room temperatures. Rarely the soft drinks like Dr. Pepper is generally served and consumed warm. Go to this page if you are looking for perfect dispenser for your drinks.

These soft drinks are available in every corner of the world, in fact in the deep rural areas too. However, instead of buying and consuming at the outside, we can also buy post mix syrup so that we can prepare the soft drinks right at home any time we want. It saves lots of time buying and having the soft drinks. But it needs the carbonated water to be added to the syrup so that the completeness of the soft drink would be felt and experienced.

Preparing the soft drinks through these syrups would benefit us and the public also in many of the ways. For example, the beverage dispenser Australia are found everywhere, which needs to be recycled. When these dispensers are decreased, the recycling cost also would be decreased.

So, next time when you go to the grocery shop, look for the syrups, instead of the soft drink cans and soft drink bottles.