Aware of Low-Calorie Alternatives?
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:37pm Under General
If you are an aware consumer, you know there are more beverage choices than ever. Before you buy that next high-calorie soda pop, you might want to stop and consider a healthier alternative.
SodaStream began operation in 1903. It was a carbonation system invented by Giles Gilby which made standard water into fizzy water, and was originally sold to the upper classes. Flavours were introduced in the 1920s. These choices included sarsaparilla and cherry ciderette. It enjoyed widespread success in the 1970s and 80s, becoming a big hit in countries such as Germany, Australia, and the UK.
The company underwent numerous changes in ownership; at one point, SodaStream even became part of the Cadbury Schweppes empire. 1998 was the year SodaStream changed hands for the final time when purchased by Soda Club, which at that time was Israel’s biggest supplier of SodaStream. SodaStream remained the name of the brand after Soda Club’s unsuccessful bid to rename the brand from SodaStream to Soda-Club.
More recently Soda Club sought to renew the SodaStream brand. Focusing on the health and diet issues that are so prevalent in this day and age, SodaStream was relaunched with a new machine and many new flavours, concentrating on being a healthy alternative to fizzy, sugar-rich drinks such as Coca Cola and Pepsi.
The SodaStream product is essentially a home carbonation kit, allowing you to change water into sparkling water, as well as allowing you to add low-calorie flavours such as cola and orange. A large assortment of calorie-free flavours to flavour sparkling water to great taste is sold at allfreightfree.com.
The SodaStream machine process forces co2 into a bottle suitable for pressurising and which is filled with water. The co2 turns the water into sparkling or carbonated water. This process — dissolving co2 — is referred to as carbonation. The carbonated water can then be drunk on its own as sparkling water, or mixed with flavours to create tasty, healthy treats. Once the co2 canisters have been used up they can be sent back to Soda-Club who recycle the canisters by refilling them with co2 then sending them back out.
As far as the actual health and diet benefits gained from drinking SodaStream, it is claimed that all their flavours are completely sugar-free and contain a maximum of 2 calories per 100ml, surely good news for parents concerned about their children’s diet.
The SodaStream machine adds only co2 to the water, meaning it does not have the added sugar that some bottled sparkling water contains, so there is hardly any difference between it and normal water.
SodaStream have made much of their environmental and health credentials, going so far as to claim that every litre bottle of SodaStream made saves three aluminum cans. The result is that over 3 years, a family of four could slash their soft-drink-related packaging usage by over 90%. This is an arresting claim, one that in this environmentally conscious age will stand them in good stead. Obviously, Sodastream has developed into a viable alternative to the big players in the soft drink world.
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