Defining food for different laws

 There are other soft drinks like Gold Spot, Limca and Thums Up, which have lost considerable market presence, may be having problems about purity of contents, if tested properly.

 Makers of soft drinks and similar products have left a considerable legacy of case laws behind them.

 In 1988, the soft drinks manufacturers moved the Supreme Court claiming that their products have all the properties of food because they contained sugar and many ingredients that enrich the body like any other food.

 They claimed central excise duty exemption on the ground that these drinks had