Hello everyone,
I've searched the forums and not found an answer to this questions specifically so would like to ask here.
I'm working on a soda project and may end up semi-commercial but am over in Asia and don't have easy access to all the things we would in the States or Europe. I want to narrow down what preservative, as natural as possible, that I should consider using for a shelf stable (1 year) bottled soda product.
I've done some research on both bottled teas and lemonades, etc... and see that a lot of them have a few grams of ascorbic acid (like maybe green or black tea with ascorbic and bottled). If I can use ascorbic acid great, but after reading a few posts I'm not so sure.
As a number of the flavors are citrus based I would like to avoid sodium benzoate.
When I see a green tea beverage (not soda) with only brewed green tea and ascorbic acid it's the ascorbic that's preserving it isn't it? Or are they using UHT or some form of sterilization method other than that?
Mostly interested in a soda line, cold brew bottled tea, and cold brew coffee, all bottled for long shelf life.
Any thoughts/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
I've searched the forums and not found an answer to this questions specifically so would like to ask here.
I'm working on a soda project and may end up semi-commercial but am over in Asia and don't have easy access to all the things we would in the States or Europe. I want to narrow down what preservative, as natural as possible, that I should consider using for a shelf stable (1 year) bottled soda product.
I've done some research on both bottled teas and lemonades, etc... and see that a lot of them have a few grams of ascorbic acid (like maybe green or black tea with ascorbic and bottled). If I can use ascorbic acid great, but after reading a few posts I'm not so sure.
As a number of the flavors are citrus based I would like to avoid sodium benzoate.
When I see a green tea beverage (not soda) with only brewed green tea and ascorbic acid it's the ascorbic that's preserving it isn't it? Or are they using UHT or some form of sterilization method other than that?
Mostly interested in a soda line, cold brew bottled tea, and cold brew coffee, all bottled for long shelf life.
Any thoughts/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!