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A soft drink, also referred to as soda, soda pop, or fizzy drinks, is a non-alcoholic beverage
usually containing water and a flavouring agent. Many of these beverages are carbonated and
sweetened with either sugar, or high-fructose corn syrup, and they may contain additional
ingredients such as fruit juice. They are called soft in contrast to hard because hard
generally refers to drinks with a significant alcohol content. Small amount of alcohol may be
present in a soft drink, but it must be less than 0.5 % of the total volume if the drink is to be
considered non-alcoholic.
APPARATUS REQUIRED:
Test Tubes
CHEMICALS REQUIRED:
Lime Water
Benedict s Solution
Fehlings Solution A & Fehlings Solution B
Concentrated Nitric Acid (HNO3)
Ammonium Molybdate
Iodine Solution
Potassium Iodide Solution
Sodium Hydroxide
Finding pH
EXPERIMENT:
Few drops of the soft drink sample of each brand was taken in separate test tubes and put on
the pH paper. The change in the colour of pH paper was noted for each sample and was
compared with the standard pH scale.
OBSERVATION:
SR. NO.
NAME OF
THE SOFT
COLOUR
CHANGE
pH value
1.
2.
3.
4.
DRINK
FANTA
LIMCA
COCA COLA
SPRITE
INFERENCE:
The acidic nature of soft drinks is because of the presence of citric acid and
phosphoric acid in them . pH values of soft drinks of different brands are different due to the
variation in amount of acidic contents in them.
OBSERVATON:
SR. NO.
1.
2.
3.
4.
NAME OF
THE SOFT
DRINK
FANTA
LIMCA
COCA COLA
SPRITE
TIME
TAKEN(SEC)
CONCLUSION
CO2 is present
CO2 is present
CO2 is present
CO2 is present
INFERENCE:
The lime water turned milky.
All the soft drink samples contained dissolved carbon dioxide in water. The carbondioxide
(CO2) dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, which is responsible for soft drinks tangy
taste.
OBSERVATON:
Sr. No.
1.
Name of the
soft drink
Fanta
2.
Limca
3.
Coca cola
4.
Sprite
Change seen
Conclusion
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
INFERENCE:
All the samples gave positive test for glucose with Benedicts reagent. Hence all the soft
drinks contain glucose. The principle of Benedict's test is that when reducing sugars are
heated in the presence of an alkali, they get converted to powerful reducing compounds
known as enediols. Enediols reduce the cupric ions (Cu2+) present in the Benedict's reagent
to cuprous ions (Cu+) which get precipitated as insoluble red copper(I) oxide.
OBSERVATON:
Sr. No.
1.
Name of the
soft drink
Fanta
2.
Limca
3.
Coca Cola
4.
Sprite
Change seen
conclusion
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Reddish
precipitate
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
Presence of
glucose
INFERENCE:
All the samples gave positive test for glucose with Fehlings (A & B) solutions. Hence all
the soft drinks contain glucose. The bistartratocuprate(II) complex oxidizes the aldehyde to
a carboxylate anion, and in the process the copper(II) ions of the complex are reduced to
copper(I) ions. Red copper(I) oxide then precipitates out of the reaction mixture, which
indicates a positive result .
OBSERVATON:
Sr. No.
1.
Name of the
soft drink
Fanta
2.
Limca
3.
Coca Cola
4.
Sprite
Change seen
conclusion
Canary yellow
precipitate
Canary yellow
precipitate
Canary yellow
precipitate
Canary yellow
precipitate
PO43- is present
PO43- is present
PO43- is present
PO43- is present
INFERENCE:
All the soft drinks samples gave positive test for phosphate ions. Hence all
the cold drinks contain phosphate
OBSERVATON:
Sr. No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Name of the
soft drink
Fanta
Limca
Coca Cola
sprite
Change seen
Conclusion
INFERENCE:
All the soft drink samples gave negative test for alcohol. Hence none of the soft drinks
contain alcohol.
OBSERVATON:
Sr. No.
Change seen
Conclusion
1.
Name of the
soft drink
Fanta
Black residue
2.
Limca
Black residue
3.
Coca Cola
Black residue
Sucrose is
present
Sucrose is
present
Sucrose is
4.
Sprite
Black residue
present
Sucrose is
present
INFERENCE:
All the brands of soft drinks contain sucrose. But the amount of sucrose varies
in each brand of soft drink. Fanta contains the highest amount of sucrose.
RESULT:
After conducting several tests, it was concluded that the different brands of
soft drinks namely:
1. Fanta
2. Limca
3. Coca Cola
4. Sprite
All contains glucose, sucrose, phosphate and carbon dioxide. All
cold drinks are acidic in nature. On comparing the pH value of different
brands Coca Cola is the most acidic and Limca is least acidic of all the four
brands taken.
Among the four samples of cold drinks taken, Sprite has the maximum
amount of dissolved carbon dioxide and Fanta has the minimum amount of
dissolved carbon dioxide.