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 | higher-contamination row |
| 3 | Vegetable juices, non-root | vegetable-juices | clean benchmark |
| 4 | Vegetable juices, root-vegetable-containing | vegetable-juices | higher-contamination row |
| 5 | non-rice) | plant-milks | clean benchmark |
| 6 | Plant milks, soy-based | plant-milks | higher-contamination row |
| 7 | Plant milks, rice-based — RETIRED | plant-milks | retired → Category 3 row 10 (Rice beverages); Amendment 1, 2026-04-28 |
| 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 | higher-contamination row |
| 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 | higher-contamination row |
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.
Page history
The five most recent substantive edits to this page. The full version history lives in git; when DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.
| Commit | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| b0f3d38 | 2026-06-12 | batch | corpus rescreen b04 old terminal skips |