[sergeantdave]

“If soda drinks are truly harmful they should be banned or manufacturers should be required to reformulate their products to make them safer.”

Reformulated pop known as carbonated fruit drinks exist. They’re made of real fruit juice and carbonated water. They’re a bit pricey but they are available.

In addition, Israel’s Sodastream is available now in America, You can make your own pop for about a dime a glass and load it with all kinds of healthy and hippy organic stuff if one so desires.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Sodastream offers some possibilities. Among my favorite soft drinks have been celery tonic and ginger ale. These got their start as health elixirs. If a person decided to create these drinks from scratch in the kitchen the result might be a drink heavy enough with real ginger or celery to be therapeutic. I read somewhere that the original Dr. Pepper was made from real fruit extracts, primarily prune.