The more I find out about the original ingredients of soft drinks the more I wonder why they were collectively called soft drinks. Most of us are aware that Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine and claimed to be a health drink. I guess because it was often used for upset stomachs I had mostly thought of 7-UP as an innocent "soft" drink,once again,not true. Launched in 1929 two weeks before the stock market crash,7-UP's original name was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon Lime Soda",and in case you didn't catch it in the name it contained lithium citrate,a mood stabilizing drug popular in the early 20th century and still in use today for some mental disorders. The exact origin of the name 7-UP is unclear other than the inventor claiming it could cure 7 types of hangovers. The lithium stayed in the formula until 1950,when it was removed because of potential side effects.
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