If you're a typical American, you drink more than 30 gallons of soft drinks per year. That's a lot of sugar, additives, and possibly caffeine. Natural sodas come in most of the same flavors as you'd find in cans and bottles at your local convenience food store. There are natural colas, root beers, ginger ales, and fruit-flavored sodas. Some of the more unusual offerings include R.W. Knudsen's Mango Spritzer, After the Fall's Amaretto Almond Creamie, Natural Brew's Ginseng Cola, Hansen's Raspberry, and Blue Sky's Orange Creme.
Ingredients vary widely also.
Some companies, such as After the Fall, R.W. Knudsen, and Tianfu China Cola use fruit juice concentrate as the sweetener. All of the flavor, color, and nutrients in fruit are often removed in the process, leaving some fruit juice concentrates as little more than sugar water. Journey uses a variety of sweeteners including unrefined corn syrup, brown rice syrup, maple syrup, and barley malt. This company's Asian Spice Ginger Brew and Shenandoah Root Beer contain honey. In general, while these sweeteners may sound more natural than high fructose corn syrup, they are still sugar and are generally a source of only calories.