"Hard" drinks contain alcohol. Anything without alcohol is a soft drink.
Soft drinks are soda-based drinks which do not contain alcohol or its components... thus it is also called a non-alcoholic drink. Alcoholic drinks are alcohol-based drinks... also known as hard drinks.
No, they do not. As a matter of fact, they enhance these effects, since most of the soft drinks contain CO2, which helps to deliver alcohol to your blood more quickly.
Since the drink doesn't contain alcohol you can. Only a mouthful to swallow the medicine.
No.
Citrus-flavored soft drinks.
No. Soft drinks are acidic as they contain carbonic acid and often phosphoric acid.
No.A soft drink is one that contains no alcohol and is typically made with carbonated water.While milkshakes do not contain alcohol, they are not made with carbonated water, and were therefore not soft drinks.They are simply classed as "milkshakes" or dairy drinks.On a restaurant menu, you will see them listed as "soft drinks and milkshakes".As another example, fruit drinks which contains fruit pulps are classed as smoothies rather than soft drinks.
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it is just a difference in speech, same as calling a garage sale a yard sale & vice versa. Soft drink also refers to the drink not being a hard drink (a hard drink is a drink with alcohol). Since soda/soft drinks do not have alcohol, they are called soft drinks.
Most soft drinks contain sugar, and sugar is addictive. It's not the drink, it's the sugar in it.
Sodas and soft drinks do NOT contain gluten.