Soft drinks, also known as refreshing drinks and non-alcoholic drinks, refer to natural or artificially prepared drinks with an alcohol content of less than 0.5%. Its main raw materials are drinking water or mineral water, fruit juice, vegetable juice or extracts of roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of plants. There are many varieties of soft drinks, which are divided into carbonated drinks, fruit juice drinks, vegetable juice drinks, lactic acid drinks and solid drinks according to raw materials and processing techniques.

Carbonated drinks. It is a bubble drink formed by mixing carbon dioxide gas with various flavors, moisture, syrups, pigments, etc. Like cola, soda, etc. The main ingredients of carbonated drinks include carbonated water, citric acid and other acidic substances, sugar, and spices. Excluding beverages that produce carbon dioxide by fermentation, the carbon dioxide content of the finished product (volume at 20 degrees Celsius) shall not be less than 2.0 times. Divided into juice type, fruity type, cola type, low calorie type and other types.

Juice (pulp) and juice drinks. Including fruit juice (pulp) and fruit juice drinks. Juice (pulp) is a fruit juice (pulp) or mixed juice product obtained by processing moderately mature fresh or refrigerated fruits as raw materials. Fruit juice drink is a fruit juice drink product obtained by adding ingredients such as sugar liquid and sour agent to the fruit juice (slurry) product. It can be drunk directly or after dilution. It is divided into original juice, original pulp, concentrated fruit juice, concentrated berry juice drink, pulp drink, fruit juice drink and high-sugar fruit juice drink.

Vegetable juice drinks. Products made from one or more fresh or frozen vegetables (including edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, edible fungi, edible algae and ferns), etc., by squeezing, pulping or leaching. Including vegetable juice, mixed vegetable juice, mixed fruit and vegetable juice, fermented vegetable juice and other vegetable juice drinks. Lactic acid drink. It is a liquid product made from fresh milk and dairy products without fermentation or after fermentation, and then added with water or other auxiliary materials. Including milk drinks, lactic acid bacteria milk drinks, lactic acid drinks/and lactic acid bacteria drinks.