Wintergreen soda was a flavored carbonated beverage once popular in North America. The flavoring that was added to wintergreen soda water was "nominally made out of teaberry leaves, or wintergreen." [ 1 ] Other regional common names used to describe Gaultheria procumbens included mountain berries , wintergreen plums , or checked berries . [ 1 ] Wintergreen soda may have originally been a homemade foodstuff but was ultimately one of the many flavors listed in the catalogs of flavoring companies serving late 19th-century soda fountain proprietors. [ 2 ] Carrie Giddings, a Civil War-era U.S. Army wife, relied on homemade lemon and wintergreen soda waters when she was called upon to host important guests. [ 3 ] American nature writer Edwin Way Teale recalled it as a favorite of his childhood in Indiana: "From early days wintergreen was a flavor that gave me my greatest delight. At the ornate Canditorium, on Main Street in Michigan City , I used to reach a seventh heaven and enter in when a wintergreen soda, with coral-pink foam, was set before me." [ 4 ] Methyl salicylate List of soft drink flavors 1 2 "An Exhilarating Tipple" . The Morning News . 1892-12-11. p. 5 . Retrieved 2023-09-10 . ↑ Levin, Judith (2021-08-12). Soda and Fizzy Drinks: A Global History . Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78914-490-1 .

↑ Campbell, Robin D. (2020-10-28). Mistresses of the Transient Hearth: American Army Officers' Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880 . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-14373-7 . ↑ edwin way teale (1943). Dune Boy . Internet Archive. p. 155. Soft drink flavors American cuisine Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata