Do you prefer sparkling water or still? Do you enjoy the unique sensation of bubbles popping on your tongue and burning your nose? Maybe you have a SodaStream machine at home and make your own fizzy drinks whenever the fancy takes you! Test your knowledge of carbonated water and soft drinks with our fun quiz and free printable worksheet below!
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#1. Carbonated water is water with added ____________ gas (CO2).
#2. Carbonated water is also known as: sparkling water, soda water, fizzy water, seltzer water, and club soda. Non-carbonated water is called ____________ water.
#3. Soda water gets its name from the added soda (____________ or bicarbonate).
#4. ____________ is usually added to carbonated water to help improve the flavour.
#5. Naturally sparkling water comes from a ____________ and usually contains various minerals along with sulphur compounds.
#6. The first person to infuse water with CO2 was ____________ in 1740.
#7. By 1781 carbonated water was being produced commercially in European ____________.
#8. Johann Jacob Schweppe founded Schweppes in 1783 with the aim of selling ____________ soda water.
#9. Schweppes Tonic Water, created in 1783, is renowned as the world’s original ____________.
#10. ____________ was founded in 1903 in England. PepsiCo bought it in August 2018 for US$3.2 billion.
#11. The SodaStream Sparkling Water Maker allows anybody to easily create carbonated water in their own home at the push of a ____________ without electricity.
#12. The most popular soft drink brands in the UK (2021) are: 1.____________, 2. Pepsi, 3. Red Bull, 4. Lucozade, 5. Monster.
#13. Dentists advise that drinking carbonated water doesn’t usually have a ____________ effect on your teeth. Rather the sugar and other acids that soft drinks often contain can be harmful.
#14. The most popular flavours of soft drink are: 1. cola, 2 lemon 3.____________. Other popular flavours include: apple, cherry, ginger, grapefruit, mango, peach, raspberry, strawberry, and watermelon.
#15. Coca-Cola was invented by American pharmacist ____________ in 1886.
#16. Today, Coca-Cola is unquestionably the ____________ soft drink on the planet.
#17. The refreshing ‘bite’ or ‘kick’ from drinking carbonated beverages is actually an invigorating shock or ‘____________’, caused by the carbon dioxide in the water activating the sour receptors on the tongue. Cold, flavours, and sweetness intensify the effect, which is why an ice-cold fizzy drink can make us gasp.
#18. There are around nine cubes of ____________ (35 g) in the average 330 ml can of Coca-Cola, which is more than our entire recommended daily allowance. The NHS recommends that adults consume a maximum of 30 g of sugar per day (around 7 cubes).
#19. In 2018 many carbonated drink producers in the UK were encouraged to reduce the amount of sugar in their soft drinks in response to the new Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) – a ____________. Three years later, consumption of sugar from soft drinks had fallen by 10%.
#20. Many manufacturers avoided the tax by changing the ____________ of their drinks to combine part sugar with part sweetener(s). Nowadays it is difficult to find a soft drink that does not use sweeteners such as aspartame and acesulfame K. Coca-Cola is one of the only ones not to alter its secret recipe.
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