4 ms·
To me the biggest and most obvious is to compare Coke made with corn syrup (US) versus the Coke that is bottled in Mexico and shipped to the US. It's made with
by dekhn 2y ago
To me the biggest and most obvious is to compare Coke made with corn syrup (US) versus the Coke that is bottled in Mexico and shipped to the US. It's made with cane sugar.
To use a term from wine, it tastes "drier". And less viscous. I first noticed this as a kid when trying soda from McDonald's (I believe at the time, back in the 1980s, cane sugar was used to make canned coke in the US, while I think the fountain soda was HFCS already. My memory and facts could be faulty, though).
- jldugger 2y agoFountain sodas are a crap shoot. Maybe the syrup bag is running low, maybe the carbonation source is about to fail, maybe someone switched around the diet coke and cherry coke lines and didn't switch the syrup:carbonated water ratios. Maybe the water line is too warm (which can also throw off ratios), or maybe a shifty manager adjusted the ratios to steal from the customers / company. Or maybe your ice just melted =) Plus the whole smell == taste thing to account for. Maybe drinking from a straw obscured the smells you can get versus an opened can.
- Kirby64 2y agoThey’re not equivalent products, though. Go compare nutrition labels. Mexican coke has more sodium. So it’s not as simple as saying the difference is purely from the HFCS vs sugar.
- dekhn 2y agoI did compare the labels and they have the same amount of sodium as US- 3%.
- vel0city 2y agoPercentage means nothing. Look at mg per oz or mL. https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/coca-cola/products/original#accordion-0723f7eecd-item-66ae745cb3 https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/coca-cola/products/or... For a 20oz (591mL) regular US Coke it's 75mg of sodium. A Mexican Coke is 355mL and has 85mg of sodium. A US 20oz has more coke and less sodium.
- dekhn 2y agoPercentage means everything, I'm assuming the serving size is identical (as one normally does when comparing these sorts of things in the context that we are). Your point is that US products are larger, which is generally true, and people typically consume an entire product at once, thus getting more total sugar (and water).
- vel0city 2y agoPercentage means everything, and yet here we have two things which obviously have different sodium content per mL and yet have the same %DV. The percentage DV isn't telling you how much of the food is sodium, it's some reference to some "ideal" diet and food intake. If the percentage of the drink was the same, the larger serving would have a higher amount in milligrams. But despite being almost 240mL more it has fewer total milligrams of sodium! .13mg/mL (US), the other is .24mg/mL(MX). Is .24 == .13? Which is a bigger number? So repeat after me, the %DV is meaningless. It's not telling you what you think it is.
- dekhn 2y agoDuh. Yes. I'm so accustomed to working with % solutions (weight by volume) I forgot nutrition labels give %DV. Comparing, my costco mexican coke = 85mg sodium in 355mL, my gas station coke = 75mg in 591mL.
- vel0city 2y agoNo worries. Just a daily reminder to always double check the units in the specs! :D
- tedunangst 2y agoWait, what, you think the percentage is the percentage of the product that's sodium? No. You didn't notice that one product is 240 calories and one product is 150 calories?
- 2y ago