Caffeine may put the pep in your Pepsi -- and many other soft drinks -- but it doesn't improve their flavour, as some manufacturers have claimed, Helen Gavaghan finds.
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Griffiths,R. R. & Vernotica, E. M. Is caffeine a flavouring agent in cola soft drinks? Archives of Family Medicine 9, 2000.
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Gavaghan, H. A question of taste. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000831-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000831-7
