Why do we like fizzy drinks?
By Pitstop
@pitstop (13065)
India
August 19, 2018 1:25pm CST
I'm wondering what it is about fizz that makes soft drinks so likeable for many. I'll never be able to drink a coke or Pepsi or Fanta except for the fizz in it. The fizz per se doesn't seem to have any taste, but seems to add something to the drink. what makes it that way.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Aug 18
That is why sodas are carbonated drinks: the fizz. Without it, they taste dreadfully flat.
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@snowy22315 (170699)
• United States
19 Aug 18
Carbonation seems to add life to the drink.
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@popciclecold (35503)
• United States
19 Aug 18
If there is no fizz, the drink is flat.
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@popciclecold (35503)
• United States
20 Aug 18
@pitstop I don't know my friend.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
19 Aug 18
@pitstop ~I do love my Coca-Cola. I know that I should drink more water. Friends have told me about fizzy water with fruit flavors that people can buy. I have tried it a couple of times. I like the black cherry fizzy water the best but still prefer Coke.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
19 Aug 18
I no longer drink soda but I enjoyed the fizz also. It tickled the nose. 
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
19 Aug 18
Surprisingly enough, we enjoy carbonated drinks because they are painful! The carbon dioxide in the bubbles is converted in our mouths into carbonic acid and that activates the receptors on our tongues which signal "Acid - Danger!" and it is this which makes us subjectively experience that 'bite' and prickling feeling which is pleasurable in small doses.
snap-click. ahh. gulp. -- Familiar sounds at a summer BBQ. Get to know your carbonated beverage.
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