{"id":3135,"date":"2009-01-30T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2009-01-30T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T17:07:31","slug":"the-difference-between-seltzer-and-club-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/01\/the-difference-between-seltzer-and-club-soda\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between Seltzer and Club Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Drinks

Drinks on us <\/p><\/div>\n

A new addition at OHC HQ is the fizzie.\u00a0 This started last year as a way to provide us fun drinks that are low cal and not alcoholic.\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but as much as I love water by the end of the day sometimes my mouth wants something a little more exciting.\u00a0 Wait. That is what I mean to say but not in that<\/em> way.\u00a0 Pervs.<\/p>\n

Anyways! As much as I love wine (and a good dark beer), those drinks are not body-friendly when having them in excess.\u00a0 So along came the OHC Fizzies.<\/p>\n

When I first started looking into bubbly liquids to become part of the fizzie it actually took me a while to find the right ingredients.\u00a0 All grocery stores I have come across have tonic no problem.\u00a0 However, all the tonics I saw contain HFCS<\/abbr> as a top ingredient.\u00a0 Yuck.\u00a0 We try to stay away from that as much as possible here at OHC.\u00a0 The diet tonics had aspartame or some other fake chemical sweetener in it.\u00a0 Double yuck!\u00a0 We don’t do that either (nor do we do Splenda, but that’s a whole other article).\u00a0 Moving along, I eventually stumbled on flavored seltzer waters and started using those with success. Which currently I can only find at ONE of the FIVE local grocery stores around me. And that just seems really odd to me.<\/p>\n

One day as I was out at the store picking up more seltzer, I came across club soda and bought some of that as well.\u00a0 Then it occurred to me, “I wonder what the difference is between the two?\u00a0 They seem like basically the same thing.”<\/p>\n

Google to the rescue!\u00a0 Okay, actually it was Scott who found the answer for me via Google. So Super Scott to the rescue!\u00a0 I found the answer fascinating and thought maybe you guys might be interested as well!<\/p>\n

What he found said that seltzer water can be a naturally occurring fizzie or a man-made fizzie.\u00a0 While club soda is strictly man-made.\u00a0\u00a0 However, club soda also has some type of sodium added to it while seltzer does not.\u00a0 Naturally-occurring fizzie is water coming up from the ground that passes through layers of minerals that are interlaced or made up of some kind of carbonate. As the water passes through it may absorb some of the carbon dioxide given off by the carbonates, thus rendering it a carbonated water.\u00a0 Man-made is when carbon dioxide under pressure is mixed with water, thus making it carbonated.<\/p>\n

For a more detailed explanation check out Miss Cocktail’s answer on Yahoo<\/a>. And the Wikipedia page on Club Soda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OHC HQ will be sticking with seltzer because we don’t need to ingest more sodium.\u00a0 However, I’m sure we’ll have club soda every once in a while.<\/p>\n

And that’s the difference between seltzer and club soda. Now you know! :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new addition at OHC HQ is the fizzie.\u00a0 This started last year as a way to provide us fun drinks that are low cal and not alcoholic.\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but as much as I love water by the end of the day sometimes my mouth wants something a little more exciting.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-Oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}