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Marketing - Food & Dairy | | Japanese term or phrase: 嗜好飲料 | | This term is used in a market research paper, referring to soft drinks such a s Calpis. Any idea what the English equivalent would be? |
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| | Nonalcoholic beverages | Explanation:
Based on what others have said here and searching online, the term appears to be applicable to hot or cold, carbonated or noncarbonated, juice-based, milk-based, etc. etc. nonalcoholic beverages.
Looking at the component parts of the term suggests to me a beverage that is consumed for its taste, as opposed to one that would be intoxicating. While I have seen the term "tasty beverages" used, it does not sound natural to me as an English speaker. If taste vs. intoxication is the determinant, then "nonalcoholic beverages" describes "soft drinks such as Calpis".
Government and industry commonly divide beverages into "alcoholic" and "nonalcoholic" before classifying them further based on other criteria. Depending on the context, a narrower classification excluding some other beverages might be appropriate, but from what you have given us, "nonalcoholic beverages" seems appropriate to me. |
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