Drink
The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery. A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption. Beverages almost always largely consist of water. Water is essential for living, significantly more so than food. Death will usually occur after 1 week without any liquids but humans have been known to survive some months without food. The most popular bevarage worldwide is water. Tea is the second most popular, and then coffee comes next.
Juice
Juice is a fluid naturally contained in animal or plant tissue. This article deals with the latter. For example, orange juice is the liquid extract of the fruit of the orange tree. Juice may be supplied in concentrate form, requiring the user to add water to reconstitute the liquid back to (an approximation of) the original state. Juice will usually have a defined level of purity, in some countries of 100%. It should not be confused with a squash which is usually an artificial juice to be diluted with water. Common methods for preservation and processing of fruit juices incluide evaporation, spray drying and pasteurization.
Almost all fruit contains juice.
In Bulgaria and New Zealand (and possibly other countries), juice denotes a sweetened fruit extract, whereas nectar denotes a pure fruit or vegetable extract - thus the terms being opposite of that of some other countries, like Norway.
Popular juices include apple, orange, tangerine, cranberry, grapefruit, pineapple, tomato, blackcurrant, grape, and pomegranate. Fruit juice consumption in the US has increased in recent years[citation needed], possibly due to public perception of juices as healthy natural nutrient sources.
Soft drink
The term soft drink originally applied to carbonated drinks and non-carbonated drinks made from concentrates, although it now commonly refers to almost any cold drink that does not contain alcohol. Beverages like colas, sparkling water, lemonade, and fruit punch are among the most common types of soft drinks, while hot chocolate, tea, coffee, milk and milkshakes do not fall into this classification.
Cream soda
Cream soda is a sweet carbonated soft drink. It varies from country to country, but its most usual property is its vanilla flavouring. Its name originated, at least in the United Kingdom, from "ice cream soda" as it was traditionally served with a dollop of ice cream floating in it.
In South Africa, Cream soda is sold under the name "Creme Soda", and Coca-Cola produces some under its "Sparletta" brand. It is green in colour and has a vanilla flavour.
Ginger beer
Ginger beer is a type of carbonated alcoholic beverage or soft drink, flavored primarily with ginger, lemon and sugar. It originated in England in the mid 1700s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the early 1900s. The original recipe requires only ginger, sugar, and water, to which is added a gelatinous substance called "ginger beer plant". Fermentation over a few days turns the mixture into ginger beer. Lemon may be added.
Instead of using the ginger beer plant, some other form of live culture may be used to produce fermented (real) ginger beer. This is often baker's or brewer's yeast, but can also be a culture of lactic acid bacteria, kefir grains, or tibicos. Ginger beer is fizzy due to carbon dioxide. The alcohol content when produced by the traditional process can be high, up to 11%, although it is possible to ferment ginger beer in such a way as to produce little alcohol. Ginger beer may be mixed with beer (usually a British ale of some sort) to make one type of shandy, and with Gosling's Black Seal rum to make a drink, originally from Bermuda, called a Dark and Stormy. The soda version of ginger beer is the main ingredient in the Moscow Mule cocktail.
The beverage produced industrially today is often not brewed (fermented). Such ginger beer is carbonated with pressurized carbon dioxide, does not contain alcohol, and is sold as a soft drink. Ginger beer is similar to ginger ale except that it has a significantly stronger ginger taste (often desribed as ginger ale with a "kick" to it). Other distinctions, vis a vis ginger ale, are the cloudy appearance (which is traditional) a predominately citrusy sour taste base and it's spiceness (which comes from Capsicin, an alkyloid derived from pepper.
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