What is soda made of?
Soda takes sugar, corn syrup, phosphoric acid, caramel color, water and carbon dioxide directly. Trace them back and you pass 13 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How soda is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Corn through carbon dioxide
- Phosphate rock through phosphoric acid
- Silica sand through phosphoric acid
- Natural gas through carbon dioxide
- Limestone through carbon dioxide
- Sulfur through phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid
- Air through phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid
- Coal through phosphoric acid, coke
- Barley through caramel color, malted barley
Made along the way: 8 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 3
Food 4
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.