"Coke", "Fanta", "Sprite", after drinking for so many years, do you really know the difference?
Not long ago, I saw a passage on Douyin that said that the more people in a region consume carbonated drinks, the higher the happiness index of the place. Of course, there is no rigorous theoretical basis for this statement, just a paragraph after tea and dinner. However, the carbonated drinks, known as "happy fat house water", can indeed bring short-term happiness to many people.
I remember when I was a child, the new year festival at home, the table will be equipped with a "three-piece set of carbonated drinks", Coke, Fanta, Sprite, these drinks if placed in the usual time, adults will not give children to drink, except for the New Year's Holiday. Therefore, I always take this opportunity to have a few drinks.
Growing up, these carbonated drinks were still popular. Research data shows that the average person in the world drinks 2 billion bottles of Coca-Cola every day, which is also huge enough. But after drinking carbonated drinks for so many years, do you really know the difference between them?
So today, Lazy Meow will take the most common 3 kinds of carbonated drinks to make a comparison for everyone, let's take a look, what are the characteristics of Coke, Fanta, sprite, and where is the difference between them?
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When it comes to the difference between Coke, Sprite and Fanta, the most intuitive is the difference in appearance and taste, in fact, the difference between them, more than this, I roughly summarize it as the following 3 points:
1. Cultural origins are different
Among these 3 carbonated drinks, Coke can be said to be the earliest to be born, and it is related to an American pharmacist named John Pemberton.
Legend has it that in 1886, an alcoholic came to the pharmacy opened by Pemberton and wanted to buy a cup of coca-cola for the treatment of headaches, which needed to be mixed with water to drink, the drunkard could not wait, so he picked up a bottle of soda to mix with the medicine, and did not expect to mix out a cup of "potion drink" that was still very delicious, which was the predecessor of Coke.
Later, after some research and development improvements, Pemberton made this formula patented and sold, and there was the Coke that we know today. I believe that many people did not expect that the predecessor of Coke was actually "a potion mixed with soda".
As the second brand of the Coca-Cola Company, Fanta's invention was during World War II. At that time, Coca-Cola Company built a factory in Germany, but because of a period of time, the relationship between the United States and Germany became tense, and the German factory could not bring Coca-Cola raw materials from the United States, so it took local materials from Germany and finally developed Fanta.
When Fanta first came out, the Headquarters of Coca-Cola in the United States was not aware of the existence of this soda, and it was later accepted by the head office and officially launched Fanta in Italy in 1955. Six years later, in 1961, the Coca-Cola Company launched its third brand, Sprite.
From the perspective of cultural origin, Coke is the big brother of these three major carbonated drinks, the earliest time to appear, and the brand influence is also the strongest. It can be said that if there is no Coke, it is likely that there will be no coca-Cola company, which is now famous, and there will be no Fanta and Sprite.
2. The raw material composition is different
Why do Coke, Fanta, and Sprite look different? Taste different? This brings us to the raw materials in them. Let's take a look at the ingredient list of these 3 carbonated drinks:
From the ingredient list of Coke, Fanta and Sprite, we can see that the raw material composition of these 3 major beverages can be basically summarized as:
Water + sugar ingredients + food additives + flavors
The difference between their raw material composition is mainly reflected in the food additives used. In addition to the use of carbon dioxide (the origin of the name of the carbonated drink), cola is added caramel color, phosphoric acid, caffeine, Fanta is added to citric acid, sodium benzoate, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, sunset yellow lemon yellow, Sprite is added to citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate.
The food additives placed here, one plays a role in color development, and one plays a role in flavoring.
However, it should be mentioned in particular that cola contains caffeine, which belongs to carbonated drinks containing caffeine, while Fanta and Sprite do not have caffeine. Relatively speaking, sprite's ingredients are simpler, and there are no pigment components in the additives.
3, the appearance and taste are different
The difference in raw material composition forms the difference in appearance and taste of Coke, Fanta and Sprite.
From the appearance, Coke is black and brown, the color is darker and less transparent; Fanta is orange liquid; Sprite is transparent, more transparent, and you can clearly see the small bubbles bubbling on the surface.
From the taste point of view, Cola contains caramel color and caffeine ingredients, drinking sweeter, sweet with a slight bitterness; Fanta's positioning is orange soda, the main sour and sweet taste, and later Coca-Cola also developed apple, grape, lime, mango, peach, pineapple, watermelon, strawberry and other flavors of Fanta; Sprite contains citric acid and sodium citrate ingredients, the taste is more sour.
【Lazy Meow Experience】
After drinking Coke, Fanta and Sprite for so many years, everyone is not unfamiliar with their appearance and taste, but when it comes to cultural origins and raw material ingredients, I believe many people are confused. After the above sharing, I believe that everyone has a further understanding of the difference between these three major carbonated drinks.
However, the last thing I want to remind everyone is that from the ingredient list, it can be seen that the main ingredient of carbonated drinks is carbonated water, plus a lot of sugar, food additives and flavors, so drinking must be moderate, after all, the disadvantages seem to be much more than the benefits.
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