What makes Irn Bru so refreshing?

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This is cross posted but hopefully I have cunningly changed the language so much you won’t see where. If you do then please PM me so I can do something about it.

Anyway, onto the thread itself - what is it that makes Irn Bru so amazingly refreshing?

It cannot be any of the following:

[ul]
[li]Sugar[/li][li]Caffeine[/li][li]Quinnine[/li][li]Ammonium ferric citrate[/li][/ul]

More or less anything else I’m willing to consider - but the above cover almost everything in it, paradoxically. So what is this trace ingredient that makes the world ok?

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Refreshing? I have tried it once (or rather twice at the same time; first and last) out of curiosity and found it truly horrible.

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Alright, I’ll say it and we can get it over with:

Girders.
The real answer: water and sugar. Why would it be some mystic trace element?

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I’ve always assumed it was the taste of the enamel that Irn Bru strips off of teeth upon contact.

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Damn.

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It gets the taste of Bucky out of your mouth.