Category 5: Beverages

This page is the wiki hub for the locked Category 5 Step 0 beverage row architecture. It preserves the sixteen locked rows and links each row to its product page, ingredient nodes, and affected metal pages. Downstream ingest may append future amendment rows, but these row numbers and names should not be renumbered or silently collapsed.

Locked Rows

#	Subcategory	Split From	Variant Type
1	Fruit juices, non-apple	fruit-juices	clean benchmark
2	Fruit juices, apple-containing	fruit-juices	contamination platform
3	Vegetable juices, non-root	vegetable-juices	clean benchmark
4	Vegetable juices, root-vegetable-containing	vegetable-juices	contamination platform
5	non-rice)	plant-milks	clean benchmark
6	Plant milks, soy-based	plant-milks	contamination platform
7	Plant milks, rice-based	plant-milks	contamination platform
8	Flavored waters	flavored-waters	independent no split
9	energy drinks	sports-energy-drinks	independent no split
10	botanical infusions	tea-taxonomy	clean benchmark
11	True tea (Camellia sinensis)	tea-taxonomy	contamination platform
12	Matcha (whole-leaf Camellia sinensis)	tea-taxonomy	distinct exposure pathway
13	Coffee (ground, brewed, instant, single-serve)	coffee	independent no split
14	carbonated beverages	soft-drinks-carbonated-beverages	independent no split
15	Fermented beverages, non-tea-based	kombucha-and-fermented-beverages	clean benchmark
16	Kombucha (tea-based fermented beverage)	kombucha-and-fermented-beverages	contamination platform

Platform Links

Apple-containing fruit juice routes through apple and Pb. Root-vegetable-containing juice routes through root-vegetables, Cd, and Pb. Soy plant milk routes through soy, Al, Ni, and Cd. Rice plant milk routes through rice, iAs, Cd, and Pb. Tea, matcha, and tea-based kombucha route through camellia-sinensis, Al, and Pb.

Boundary Rules

Drinking water and mineral water route to the water category, not this beverage category. Tea or coffee with a Supplement Facts panel routes to dietary supplements. Plant-based infant formula routes to Category 1. Sparkling water without flavoring routes to water; sparkling water with flavoring routes to flavored-waters.