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DailyDirt: DIY Soda (Pop Or Whatever You Call Carbonated Beverages)
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Making your own carbonated soft drinks has a few benefits — from knowing where all the ingredients came from (eg. no brominated vegetable oil) to getting the satisfaction of creating your own custom flavoring. It’s not quite as simple as punching a button on a vending machine, but it’s not exactly rocket science, either. Here are just a few links on being your own soda jerk.
- Sodastream has been around since 1903, but it went public on the Nasdaq in 2010 and started expanding its DIY soda making system to take on the big soft drink makers. But marketing itself as an alternative isn’t always easy, and it had to change its 2013 SuperBowl commercial to remove Coke and Pepsi logos. [url]
- The secret recipe for a can of Coca-Cola isn’t just getting the mixture of caramel coloring and phosphoric acid right; there are also a zillion other details from packaging and distribution that have been optimized. The top of the aluminum can is actually a different aluminum-magnesium alloy from the rest of the can, engineered so it can have a pop-top and still withstand the pressurized contents. [url]
- When making your own soda, be sure to use 100% essential food oils that are rated food grade. Recipes to make Open Cola and the “original” Coke are available, but there’s a bit of set up involved. [url]
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Filed Under: beverage, flavoring, food, open cola, pop, recipes, soda, soft drinks
Companies: coca cola, pepsi, sodastream
DailyDirt: Uses For Wine (Besides Drinking It)
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Drinking wine on special occasions is a popular tradition all over the world, but it seems like more people would like some other excuses for drinking wine, too. Red wine had gotten a lot of publicity for various health benefits, but if you want to drink some wine, maybe you should be asking yourself why you need so many different reasons. Here are just a few interesting links about wine to go with your favorite beverage.
- There’s a persistent statistic that wine drinkers tend to live longer than teetotalers or people who drink other forms of alcohol. But according to a recent study, those wine drinkers also correlate highly with people who possess healthier habits in general. So wine could merely be the drink of the healthier — and not some magic elixir for longer life. [url]
- Some Australian researchers have developed a process to turn wine into clothing — and it also works with other forms of alcohol. Bacteria are used to ferment the alcohol into a formable fabric, and the garments retain characteristic odors of their original beverage. So if you really like the smell of beer, there’s a perfect shirt for you…. [url]
- There’s a possible “miracle molecule” in red wine called resveratrol — and it seems to give older mice some improved mobility. Consuming more red wine might seem like the easy answer for older people to gain mobility improvements, but the study also suggested that a 150lb human would have to drink 700 4-ounce glasses of red wine a day to see an effect. Good luck with that! [url]
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Filed Under: alcohol, beverage, fabric, food, health, resveratrol, teetotalers, wine