Beverages - is something liquid (to some extent), suitable for human consumption in, and designed for this purpose, specially manufactured for this purpose. Drinks are divided into beverages (alcoholic) and soft, which in turn are divided into groups, subgroups, species, varieties and individual items.
Alcohol, they are also alcoholic, drinks - beverages containing not less than 1,5% of ethyl alcohol derived from food, carbohydrate-containing raw materials. The main method of obtaining alcoholic beverages - the biological fermentation. In fermentation, except for ethanol, produced a number of other substances, collectively called fusel oils, as well as easy to volatile. Fusel oils are highly toxic, and therefore of the spirits are removed through distillation, treatment with activated carbon, the intermediate oxidation, and others. Alcoholic beverages are not subjected to distillation and purification, are characterized by high content of fusel oils. In domestic alcoholic beverages are often collectively referred to as alcohol. Alcohol abuse almost always leads to alcoholism in people predisposed to it. Overdose of alcoholic beverages under certain conditions leads to a hangover.
Soft drinks - a beverage that does not contain alcohol or contain its very small amount. This group includes carbonated water, juices, nectars, fruit drinks, mineral water, kvass and many others. When choosing non-alcoholic beverage is useful to take into account, along with their gustatory merits and also the content of useful substances. Many soft drinks contain a significant amount of sugar, and therefore you do not need calories. Please consider this: if you do not want to gain weight, drink beverages with sugar substitutes. Note whether the drink contains vitamins. Often it is simply a solution of sweet substances, flavor and dye in the water, he does not bring the body of any benefit. Prefer vitamin drinks. Modern industry produces soft drinks, containing 4 - 5 and even 12 vitamins in amounts that meet the daily requirement 1 - 2 glasses of the drink. Many of these drinks can be purchased in dry form and cook at home. Not any juice - a source of vitamins. Many juices are very poor in vitamins, exception - specially fortified juice, carrot juice (a source of beta-carotene), black currant juice (vitamins C and P) and some others. The content of vitamins and other healthy substances in fruit nectars, and still more in the fruit drinks are lower than in the juices, fruit juice in fact consists entirely of vegetables, fruit nectar in no more than half, while the proportion of fruit drinks fruit less. Pay attention to the inscriptions on the labels that tell the drink, read match your needs for vitamins. Kvas - a useful non-alcoholic drink. It does not significantly enrich your body with vitamins, but kvass acid (primarily lactic) help digestion.