MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR SOFT DRINKS (DIET DRINKS, FRUIT FLAVOR DRINKS)
MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR SOFT DRINKS (DIET DRINKS, FRUIT FLAVOR DRINKS):
MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR SOFT DRINKS :
A soft drink is a drink that usually contains
carbonated water (although some lemonades are not
carbonated), a sweetener and a natural or artificial flavoring.
The sweetener may be a sugar, high-fructose corn
syrup, fruit juice, a sugar substitute (in the case of diet
drinks), or some combination of these. Soft drinks may also contain caffeine, coloring, preservatives, and/or other ingredients.
Soft
drinks are made by mixing dry or fresh ingredients with water. Production of
soft drinks can be done at factories or at home. Soft drinks can be made at
home by mixing a syrup or dry ingredients with carbonated water, or by
lacto-fermentation. Syrups are commercially sold by companies such as Soda-Club;
dry ingredients are often sold in pouches, in a style of the popular U.S. drink
mix Kool-Aid. Carbonated water is made using a soda siphon or
a home carbonation system or by dropping dry ice into water.
Food-grade carbon dioxide, used for carbonating drinks, often comes from ammonia plants.
Drinks like ginger ale and root
beer are often brewed using yeast to cause carbonation.
Of most importance is that the
ingredient meets the agreed specification on all major parameters. This is not
only the functional parameter (in other words, the level of the major
constituent), but the level of impurities, the microbiological status, and
physical parameters such as color, particle size, etc.
Some soft drinks contain
measurable amounts of alcohol. In some older preparations, this resulted from natural
fermentation used to build the carbonation. In the United States, soft drinks
(as well as other products such as non-alcoholic beer) are allowed by law
to contain up to 0.5% alcohol by volume. Modern drinks introduce carbon
dioxide for carbonation, but there is some speculation that alcohol might
result from fermentation of sugars in a non-sterile environment. A small amount
of alcohol is introduced in some soft drinks where alcohol is used in the
preparation of the flavoring extracts such as vanilla extract.
FLOW CHART OF MANUFACTURING PROCESS:
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