Flavored soft drink became popular after 1830, and in the late 19th century a druggist invented a flavored soda by adding an extract from the African kola nut.
Numerous soft drink companies started with closely guarded favored syrup formulas. Soft drinks are water abused beverages usually flavored with edible acids and essences derived from fruits, nuts, berries, roots and herbs.
Soft drinks may be broadly divided into two types based on appearance: clear drinks, which are completely transparent and cloudy drinks, which are turbid to one degrees or another.
A typical clear drink is lemonade, which is usually crystal clear. Cloudy drinks are usually those of fruit flavors, as the beverage purports to represents the appearance of the natural juice or a specified fruit species, which has a certain degree of cloudiness.
An orange-based soft drink was invented by California chemist Neil C. Ward. He partnered with Clayton J. Howell of Cleveland, Ohio to market the new beverage in 1916.
Another soft drink was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg, proprietor of the Howdy Corporation in St. Louis. In 1927 Grigg began experimenting with lemon and lime flavored soft drinks.
Cola are dominant flavor in the US carbonated soft drink industry, however, popularity for flavored soft drinks has grown in recent years due to changing of demographic.
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