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SodaStream Offering Low-Calorie Alternatives

August 28, 2009

If you are an alert consumer, you know there are more beverage choices today than ever. Before drinking that next high-calorie soda pop, stop and consider a healthier alternative.

SodaStream was introduced in 1903. It was a carbonation system invented by Giles Gilby that made standard water into fizzy water and was originally sold to the upper classes. In the 1920s, new flavours were introduced. These included sarsaparilla and cherry ciderette. In countries such as the UK, Germany and Australia it enjoyed vast success In the 1970s and 80s.

The company underwent numerous changes in ownership, at one stage even being part of the Cadbury Schweppes empire. 1998 saw the company change hands for the final time when purchased by Soda Club, which at that time was Israel’s biggest supplier of SodaStream. SodaStream remained the name of the brand after Soda Club’s unsuccessful bid to change the brand to Soda-Club.

More recently Soda Club sought to revive the SodaStream brand. SodaStream was relaunched along with a new machine and many more new flavours, concentrating on marketing a healthy alternative to fizzy, sugar-rich drinks such as Coca Cola and Pepsi, and focused on health and diet issues so prevalent in this day and age.

In basic terms, the SodaStream product is a home carbonation kit, which allows you to change water into sparkling water, as well as allowing you to add low-calorie flavours such as cola and orange. A large assortment of calorie-free flavours to flavour sparkling water to great taste is sold at allfreightfree.com.

The SodaStream machine works this way: it forces co2 into a water-filled bottle suitable for pressurising. The co2 turns the water into sparkling (carbonated) water. Carbonation is the name we give to this process of dissolving co2. The carbonated water can then be drunk on its own as sparkling water, or mixed with flavours to create tasty, healthy treats. Once the co2 canisters have been used up they can be sent back to Soda-Club who recycle the canisters by refilling them with co2 then sending them back out.

As far as the actual health and diet benefits gained from drinking SodaStream, it is claimed that all their flavours are completely sugar-free and contain a maximum of 2 calories per 100ml, which is good news for parents concerned about their children’s diet.

The SodaStream machine adds only co2 to the water, meaning it does not have the added sugar that some bottled sparkling water contains, so there is no particular difference between it and normal water.

SodaStream have made much of their environmental and health credentials, going so far as to claim that every litre bottle of SodaStream made saves three aluminum cans. So, over a 3 year span, a family of four could slash their soft-drink-related packaging usage by over 90%. This is a big claim, one that in this environmentally conscious age will stand them in good stead. Clearly, Sodastream has developed into a realistic alternative to the big players in the soft drink world.

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