All soft drinks contain sugars, syrups, colorings and other additive. Of these ingredients sugar is the most likely to increase the density of a soft drink.
Sugar is by far the largest component of naturally sweetened soft drinks. It can make up to about 13% of the drink content and gives the beverage its characteristic sweetness level.
Carbohydrates sugars used in carbonated soft drinks can be divided into those in a dry, granular form (e.g. granulated sugar (sucrose) and those in a liquid or syrup form (e.g. liquid sugar - which is a solution of sucrose in water and glucose-type syrup produced from maize) or, in certain circumstances, wheat (e.g. glucose syrup or high-fructose glucose syrup).
Americans eat and drink twice the amount of sugar they did 30 years ago. Each person eats or drinks about 22 teaspoons of sugar every day.
Sugar in soft drinks
