Love to drinks soft drinks? Do you know how soft drinks are made? What components are there? Don’t worry! we are here to answer these. We have gathered some interesting unknown facts about soft drinks to grow your learning. So, here are 20 fast facts about carbon.
Interesting Fast Facts About Soft Drinks That Everyone Should Know
Fact 1: Soft drinks is a term used for beverages that don’t contain alcohol
Fact 2: All soft drinks are acidic which corrodes the teeth by eroding its enamel.
Fact 3:The high amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks lead to the development of bacteria that attack the teeth thus aggravating dental problems.
Fact 4: People who drink three or more glasses of aerated drinks (gaseous drinks) daily have much higher chances of dental decay, fillings and teeth loss.
Fact 5: Soft drinks are mainly composed of filtered H20, artificial additives, and refined sugar.
Fact 6: Most soft drinks contain acids such as citric, phosphoric and malic or tartaric acids and gases like carbon dioxide.
Fact 7: The phosphoric acid upsets the body’s calcium-phosphorus ratio and dissolves calcium rapidly, resulting in premature osteoporosis.
Fact 8: Lack nutritional value and only add up calories through their refmed sugar; cool drinks make you gain weight.
Fact 9: Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, so very little is used to sweeten the soft drink.
Fact 10: Although aspartame does not add up the calories it makes you feel hungrier and craving for food.
Fact 11: It may lead to migraine, memory loss, emotional disorders, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, heart palpitations, and shortness of breath.
Fact 12: Acesulfame-K (Ace-K) used in soft drinks, is 100-200 times sweeter than sugar with a slight bitter after-taste. Initial tests have indicated that this substance may be carcinogenic. Even though thorough tests are still incomplete, there are reasons to be careful not to ingest this compound as tests on lab animals have shown rapid increase in cancerous tumors.
Fact 13: Saccharin is a non-nutritive sweetener that is 300 times sweeter than sugar. It has been proven to cause bladder cancer and is banned in Canada, New Zealand, and several European countries. Saccharin is found to be present in Pepsi Diet, Diet Coke, and Diet Sarsi.
Fact 14: The excessive amount of sweetener results in high blood pressure which in turn causes giddiness and increased heartbeat.
Fact 15: Excessive consumption of these drinks may deteriorate the calcium content in your body.
Fact 16: Cola drinks are rich in caffeine, a stimulant which can slowly turn you addict towards this drink just like what a coffee does to you.
Fact 17: Studies have shown that, if cola drinks were consumed on a regular basis they can make a person infertile. The ingredients of these drinks have such a harsh nature.
Fact 18: Frequent use of cola drinks causes gastrointestinal troubles followed by insomnia.
Fact 19: You may also feel a low appetite and therefore a drop in your overall body weight. The soda stimulates your nervous system and thereby disturbs your normal sleep.
Fact 20: An acidic blood condition weakens the immune system, causes inflammation, headaches, aggravates diabetes and many other diseases; Some cells die in this acidic condition, but some cells actually try to adapt to survive by becoming abnormal malignant cells.