Analyses of Soft Drinks and Ready-To-Drink (RTD) beverages with CDR DrinkLab®
The Soft Drink and Ready-To-Drink (RTD) market is experiencing rapid global growth, driven by consumer demand for innovative flavors, functional beverages, hard seltzers, and low- or no-alcohol alternatives. This expanding category encompasses a wide range of beverage matrices - from traditional carbonated sodas, tonic waters, and iced teas to premixed cocktails, spirit-based RTDs, and botanical infusions.
In such a dynamic and ingredient-diverse sector, accurate chemical analysis is essential to preserve recipe integrity, monitor sugar and alcohol content, track acidity, and ensure shelf-life stability. CDR DrinkLab® serves as a fast, reliable, and user-friendly quality control solution, enabling producers to maintain high standards and flawless batch-to-batch consistency across all soft drink and RTD formulations - from small craft batches to large-scale industrial production.
What can you analyse?
With CDR DrinkLab®, you can analyze essential quality parameters across both soft drinks and Ready-To-Drink (RTD) beverages - from non-alcoholic sodas and functional drinks to hard seltzers, premixed cocktails, and low- or no-alcohol alternatives. Key parameters include alcohol content (ABV) and trace alcohol levels, caffeine, sugars, organic acids, phosphoric acid, and total acidity. These rapid analyses ensure flavor consistency, recipe precision, product stability, and full compliance with labeling and regulatory requirements.
The perfect system for you
CDR DrinkLab®
- Complete analysis panel, supplied already configured
- Up to 16 determinations simultaneously
- Possibility of carrying out analyses of the same sample
- Integrated printer
- Full connections (LAN - USB - Bluetooth barcode/QR code reader)
CDR DrinkLab® is:
Reliable
- Accuracy: results in accordance with official reference methods.
- Sensitivity: LED readout cells ensure a wide measurement range and consistently accurate detection.
- Repeatability: the system ensures excellent consistency of results on each individual test.
Simple
- For everyone: can be used by anyone, without the need for specialized technical personnel.
- Versatile: ideal for use in the laboratory or directly on the production line, in real time.
- Built-in Help: the Help function assists the operator step by step through each step of the analysis.
Fast
- No waiting: there is little or no sample preparation, drastically reducing time.
- Few steps: our methods speed up procedures compared to traditional systems.
- Multitasking: analyze multiple samples simultaneously or detect multiple analytical parameters on the same sample, at the same time.
Ensure consistent quality in every production batch of your soft drinks and RTDs.
Rely on CDR DrinkLab® to maintain high standards and recipe integrity with fast, reliable analyses.
