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 Project By:- SHIVAM KUMAR RAVI
Class : 11-B
 Roll. No.: B-9

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 INTRODUCTION
 COMPOSITION OF C D
 TEST FOR PRESENCE OF
VARIOUS INGREDIANTS
 CONCLUSION

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 The age of cold drinks began in 1952 but the industrialization in
India marked its beginning with the launching of India’s
popular “Limca” and “Goldspot” by the parley group of
companies. Since, the beginning of cold drinks was highly
profitable and luring and after that many multinational
companies launched their brands in India like Pepsi and Coke,
as the rate of consumption of the cold drinks was at a high rise,
cold drinks being popular among children and also they
consume cold drinks much more than others.
 Now days, it is observed in general that majority of people viewed Sprite,
Miranda, and Limca to give feeling of lightness, while Pepsi and Thumps Up to
activate pulse and brain.

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In recent times there were many cases detected and many
people suffered from various kinds of disease’s symptoms not
knowing that it was being caused by the intake of “Cold
Drinks”.
Various studies
and the
examinations
conducted by
the various well
known institutes
and laboratories
on the drinks
showed up the
harmful
contents present
in the drinks,

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like: Alcohol, Lead, chromium etc. which is totally not good for
anyone.

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One of the various components present in the drinks is

CO2, and due to addition of few acids like phosphoric &
citric acids in the
drinks to make it
taste good it
becomes more
acidic & harmful.
HERE is the pH
test for few
branded drinks
available in the
markets.

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To test the
presence of CO2
in the drinks, the
bottles as soon
as they were
opened all the
samples were
passed through
the lime water solution and here are few results: the
ones who turn the solution milky faster has
comparatively high amount of CO2.
These results showed up the presence
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of harmful contents in the cold drink.

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From this it was concluded that every drink contains CO2
dissolved in it, making it carbonic acid which is responsible
for the tangy taste of the drinks.

Ca(OH)2 (s) + CO2(g) CaCO3(s) + H2O(s)

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Small samples of cold drinks of different brands were taken
in a test tube and a few drops of Benedict’s reagent were
added. The
test tubes
were heated
for few
seconds.
Formation of
reddish color
confirmed the presence of glucose in cold drinks.

All the drinks gave positive test for the test for presence of
glucose in them.

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Samples of each brand of cold drinks were taken in
separate test tubes and Iodine followed by Potassium Iodide
and “Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)” solution was added to each
test tube. Then the test tubes were heated in hot water bath
for 30 minutes. Appearance of yellow colored precipitate
confirmed the presence of alcohol in cold drinks.

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All the drinks that is available in the
market has the harmful ingredients present
in them, we have confirmed that in the
conclusions above. We must reduce our rate
of consumption of cold drinks as the
presence of harmful substances in them can
cause various kinds of hazardous diseases &
health issues.

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1. WIKIPEDIA.ORG
2. http://sci-toys.com/ingredients/soft_drinks.html