Soda is not a healthy product and, in most cases, it’s not a veryhigh-qualityproduct, either.

Or at least the decent stuff, which is available from beverage-makers both large and small.

There are plenty of other examples of soda brands that use decent ingredients.

pouring soda

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Artificially colored sugar water, more or less.

Unfortunately, you’re free to taste it, especially with Aldi’s Summit Cola.

Of those eight ingredients, only carbonated water has any legitimate business entering your body.

summit soda aldi

Courtesy of Aldi

Or both, which seems to be the Food Lion Soda approach.

But you probably shouldn’t.

Corn starch before flavor?

Faygo grape

Courtesy of Faygo

The thing is, all of H-E-B’s knock-off sodas miss the mark in their mimicry.

Hard pass on behalf of human bodies everywhere.

Shasta soda

Courtesy of Shasta

Food Lion Soda

Courtesy of Food Lion

great value soda

Walmart

Big K soda

Kroger

H-E-B Soda

Courtesy of HEB

Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew