What is soft drink?

Soft drink is type of drink that has no alcohol. It’s made from powder or liquid materials that
contains of food ingredients and others material, that kept in bottle or anything else and it’s ready to
consume.

How is made?

Before we stepped into ingredients mixing process, there’s important process, that’s a clarifying the
water, because it’s crucial to the success of the soft drink. There are few steps how to clarifying the water,
filtering, sterilizing, and dechlorinating.

1. Filtering
The clarified water is poured through a sand filter to remove fine particles of floc. The
water passes through a layer of sand and courser beds of gravel to capture the particles.

2. Sterilizing
Sterilization is necessary to destroy bacteria and organic compounds that might spoil the
water's taste or color. The water is pumped into a storage tank and is dosed with a small amount
of free chlorine. The chlorinated water remains in the storage tank for about two hours until the
reaction is complete.

3. Dechlorinating

Next, an activated carbon filter dechlorinates the water and removes residual organic
matter, much like the sand filter. A vacuum pump de-aerates the water before it passes into a
dosing station.

After water clarifying process is done. We stepped into mixing the ingredients,

1. The dissolved sugar and flavor concentrates are pumped into the dosing station in a
predetermined sequence according to their compatibility. The ingredients are conveyed into
batch tanks where they are carefully mixed; too much agitation can cause unwanted aeration.
The syrup may be sterilized while in the tanks, using ultraviolet radiation or flash pasteurization,
which involves quickly heating and cooling the mixture. Fruit based syrups generally must be
pasteurized.
2. The water and syrup are carefully combined by sophisticated machines, called
proportioners, which regulate the flow rates and ratios of the liquids. The vessels are pressurized
with carbon dioxide to prevent aeration of the mixture.
 After that, carbonating the beverage. Carbonation is generally added to the finished product,
although it may be mixed into the water at an earlier stage. The temperature of the liquid must be
carefully controlled since carbon dioxide solubility increases as the liquid temperature decreases. Many
carbonators are equipped with their own cooling systems. The amount of carbon dioxide pressure used
depends on the type of soft drink. The beverage is slightly over-pressured with carbon dioxide to facilitate
the movement into storage tanks and ultimately to the filler machine, and fill to every single bottles or
cans. They will mobilized to the packaging process and soft drinks are ready to distributed arount the
world.