Ginger Soda?

[Fydeaux]

Does anyone have any idea why my can of Diet Vernors says that it contains ginger soda and not ginger ale?

[lemons]

I'd go look at the FDA section on labelling. But ginger ale certainly isn't ale by any legal definition. It is, actually, soda.

[Fydeaux]

Obviously, just as root beer is certainly not beer. And the can of IBC I have in the fridge does not say 'root soda'.

[lemons]

Ah, but there's ginger in the ginger ale. "Root" is too generic for an ingredient list. Sassafras: Now there's a root. But my guess is that it comes under the rubric of "flavorings" or something similar and thus isn't listed by name. Did you go to the FDA site:

[Fydeaux]

Well, I have now and found no useful information after cursory searching.

{Lemons, I'm just wondering; you ended your post with a colon. Were you intending to put a link to the relevant part of the site? Or had you intended to end with a question mark and hit the wrong key?}

There is the possibility that it has been labeled as ginger soda for quite a while and I have never noticed it before. Does anyone know?

[ipsedixit]

Maybe because ginger ale typically contains sugar?