This is the second of the natural and more healthy sodas from Dry Soda that I tried. This one intrigued me more than the Vanilla Bean one, you don’t see many sodas, or even drinks, with rhubarb. Like the vanilla bean, I don’t like that they use phosphoric acid, but I did prefer this one over the vanilla bean, and the rhubarb flavouring, they use natural extracts, was good and not overwhelmingly prominent. I doubt that I would buy this again, mostly because of the phosphoric acid.
I found this soft drink in one of the health food stores I go to, I think Whole Foods. Dry Soda makes a number of interesting flavoured soft drinks. This one features vanilla bean, a flavour I enjoy very much, and it delivers on it. This is also a dry soda, which implies to me, that it is not so sweet, similar to dry, as opposed to sweet, wine; when you drink it, it does taste “dry”, ie. not sweet, which I think is a good thing. The ingredient listing is short, purified carbonated water, cane sugar, natural extracts and phosphoric acid. This last ingredient is the only problem I have. Phosphoric acid is there to help keep the bubbles of the carbonation, but it has effects on the body, including potentially leaching calcium out of your bones (to counteract the phosphorus). I will grant, that perhaps the amount of phosphoric acid in this product likely is lower than you might find in one of the commercial products, Coke or Tab, for example. Overall, I enjoyed the flavour, but don’t need the worry of what the phosphoric acid is doing.
