What is Grape Soda?
Grape soda is a sweet carbonated soda drink with a sugary fruit flavor. The beverage's main ingredients are sugar, carbonated water and flavorings. The color is usually a medium shade of dark purple. Grape soda is made by multiple companies under different brands names and is best served cold.
What does Grape Soda Taste Like?
...Sweet is one of the five main tastes. It has smooth and round notes in its flavor profile. Sweet is a naturally occurring flavor in many foods, including fruits, berries, winter squashes, sugarcane, and honey. The sweet taste in these foods is due to a higher sugar content. Sweetness is characteristic of desserts and is used as an accent in savory foods.
Ingredients
...Carbonated water is water that has had carbon dioxide gas added to it under pressure and then dissolved. This creates the effervescent, or fizzy effect found in sodas. Carbonated water is flavorless, unless flavor is added. It is a refreshing beverage best served cold.
...Fructose is a sugar found in fruits and honey. Commercially produced fructose is made from sugar beets, sugar cane and corn. The fructose is turned into crystalline form and looks a lot like sugar, but is white and has slightly larger granules. This is said to be the sweetest natural sugar and tastes very similar, but with a fruity note. Fructose is used in baked goods, sauces, drinks and more.
...Additives are added to food items in small quantities to improve the flavor, change the texture, enhance appearance, or preserve the item. Additives are both natural and artificial. Natural additives have been used for a long time, while many artificial ones were discovered in the 19th century. There are numerous artificial additives including soy lecithin, guar gum, ascorbic acid and sodium nitrite.