I heard that the official sour warheads soda isn't sour and at least one user on here is sad about it.
You should know that Malic Acid and Citric Acid (and also Lactic Acid, often used in sour beers) are available as concentrated food-safe powders. You can use them in mixed drinks, including turning that boring apple, grape, watermelon, or lemon-lime soda into something you really shouldn't pour down your throat. Nobody is stopping you.
For people who aren't spice-lords or sour-lords, here is a video with some more "normal" and less extreme culinary uses for acids from America's Test Kitchen on YouTube.
Invidious private version of the video link: Why Acids Are as Important as Salt | What’s Eating Dan?
you could put actual sour warheads into the soda if you don't feel like shopping for chemicals
I mean you can just get these acids in the baking isle of the supermarket lol. I use citric acid to descale my electric kettle.
i don't think i've ever seen them, although with how overstimulating and full of false variety our stores are i'm shocked anybody sees anything without already knowing what the package looks like.
regardless, it's still "shopping for chemicals"
Shopping for food is also shopping for chemicals. Everything is chemicals. And we buy salt all the time.
I've gotten containers of powdered citric acid from the spice section of a middle eastern market. It's a great cooking ingredient in general, since there are a lot of use cases where you need an acid in something and lemon juice or vinegar won't work. Also, it's cheaper than lemon juice by a lot.
Only the outer like 1% of the candy would add sourness. The rest is mostly sugar and mellow fruit flavoring. So you'd be wasting a bunch of money there.
Also, watch the video I linked. Arguably, these acidic powders are as useful in cooking as salt.