Soda fountains

The main utihty of saccharin had been in beverages and as a table-top sweetener. Upon the approval of aspartame for carbonated beverages in 1983, aspartame displaced saccharin in most caimed and bottied soft drinks. However, saccharin is stiU used, usually blended with aspartame, in carbonated soft drinks dispensed from soda fountains. 

Most bottled water sold today is simply municipal water that has been purified via reverse osmosis. Many homeowners are now discovering that rather than purchasing purified water.it is less expensive and more ecologically sound to install a small reverse osmosis unit within their own home. For fun, carbonators can also be installed so that you can have your very own soda fountain. 

Would you walk up to a soda fountain and order a triple, chocolate-flavored colloidal dispersion No Yet that s what you do when you ask for a chocolate sundae. Ice cream is a colloidal dispersion of solids in a liquid so is chocolate syrup. Whipped cream is a colloidal dispersion of air in a liquid. 

With Prohibition during the 1920s, the drugstore fountain replaced the tavern as the new socially acceptable gathering place. Pharmacists and their clerks were busy making milkshakes and other soda fountain... 

Caffeine experts cite the widespread use of coffee, cola drinks, water, and other drinks spiked with caffeine as making it the most widely used mind drug. After a period in which clear and no-caffeine drinks were popular, the trend toward caffeinated soft drinks and coffee is back. Many teens socialize at coffee shops instead of the soda fountains that attracted their parents. 

Syrup. Commercial name for an aqueous solution of cane or beet sugar (sucrose) sold in tank car lots to manufacturers of candy, soft drinks, soda-fountain goods, etc. USP grade is an aqueous solution of cane sugar (85g/100 mL). A viscous liquid with d 1.313. 

A Corsican chemist created Vin Mariani, a wine containing small amounts of cocaine, in the late nineteenth century. The popularity of this drink prompted American John Pemberton to create Coca-Cola, a blend of coca leaves and African Kola nuts. Soda fountains dispensing this drink opened in Georgia and soon spread across the United States. 

Like Pemberton, Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist and in his drugstore, he offered soda water from a soda fountain. To promote sales, he avored the soda with sugar, vanilla, pepsin, cola, and rare oils—obviously the essential oils of lemon and lime—and started selling it as a cure for dyspepsia, under the name Brad s Drink rather than Pepsi Cola. 

Over the same time period, another group of users of essential oils entered the markets, hi 1790, the term soda water for carbon dioxide saturated water as a new drink appeared for the first time in the United States and in 1810, the first U.S. patent was issued for the manufacture of imitations of natural gaseous mineral waters. Only 9 years later the soda fountain was patented by Samuel Fahnestock. In 1833, carbonated lemonade flavored with lemon juice and citric acid was on sale in England. In 1835, the first bottled soda water appeared in the United States. It is, however, interesting that the first flavored sparkling drink—Ginger Ale—was created in heland in 1851. The milestones in flavored soft drinks... 

At NSF, a great deal of work is done on the development and implanentation of NSF standards and criteria for health-related equipment. Standard No. 1, concerning soda fountain and luncheonette eqnipment, was adopted in 1952. Since then, many new standards have been developed and snccessfnlly implemented. The majority of NSF standards relate to water treatment and pnrihcation equipment, products for swimming pool applications, plastic pipe for potable water as well as drain, waste, and vent (DWV) uses, plumbing components for mobile homes and recreational vehicles, laboratory furniture, hospital cabinets, polyethylene refuse bags and containers, aerobic waste treatment plants, and other products related to environmental quality. 

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