I remember when I was a child, there were always three sets of carbonated drinks on the table: Coke, Fanta and Sprite. If these drinks are put in normal times, adults will not give them to children except for the Chinese New Year holidays. Therefore, I always seize this opportunity and have a good drink.
These carbonated drinks are still very popular when they grow up. According to research data, people all over the world drink an average of 2 billion bottles of Coca-Cola every day, which is huge enough. But after drinking carbonated drinks for so many years, do you really know the difference?
Today, Lazy Meow will compare the three most common carbonated drinks for everyone. Let's have a look. What are the characteristics of Coke, Fanta and Sprite? What's their difference?
When it comes to the difference between coke, sprite and Fanta, the most intuitive thing is the difference between appearance and taste. In fact, the difference between the two is not limited to this. I roughly classify it as the following three points:
Among the three kinds of carbonated drinks, cola can be said to be the earliest one, which is related to an American pharmacist named john pemberton.
According to legend, in 1886, an alcoholic came to the drugstore opened in pemberton and wanted to buy a cup of medicine Kekakola for treating headache. This medicine needs to be mixed with water. The drunkard couldn't wait, so he picked up a bottle of soda to change the medicine. Unexpectedly, a cup of "potion drink" was mixed out, which is the predecessor of Coke.
Later, after some R&D and improvement, pemberton patented the formula and sold it, and we got the cola we all know today. I believe many people did not expect that the predecessor of Coke turned out to be "a potion mixed with soda water".
As the second brand of Coca-Cola Company, Fanta was invented during World War II. At that time, Coca-Cola Company set up a factory in Germany, but because of the tense relationship between the United States and Germany for a while, the German factory could not transport Coca-Cola raw materials from the United States, so it took materials from Germany and finally developed Fanta.
When Fanta first came out, the Coca-Cola headquarters in the United States did not know the existence of this soda, and it was later accepted by the head office, and Fanta was officially listed in Italy 1955. Six years later, 196 1, Coca-Cola Company launched its third brand, namely Sprite.
From the perspective of cultural origin, Coke is the big brother among the three carbonated drinks, with the earliest appearance and the strongest brand influence. It can be said that without Coca-Cola, there would probably be no Coca-Cola Company, Fanta and Sprite.
Why do Coke, Fanta and Sprite look different? It tastes different? This is about their composition. Let's take a look at the ingredient list of these three carbonated drinks:
As can be seen from the ingredient list of Coke, Fanta and Sprite, the raw material composition of these three drinks can be basically summarized as follows:
Water+sugar component+food additive+food essence
The difference between them in the composition of raw materials is mainly reflected in the food additives used. In addition to carbon dioxide (the origin of the name of carbonated drinks), caramel color, phosphoric acid and caffeine are added to cola, citric acid, sodium benzoate, sucrose, acesulfame K and sunset yellow lemon yellow are added to Fanta, and citric acid, sodium citrate and sodium benzoate are added to Sprite.
The food additives put in, one plays the role of color development and the other plays the role of flavor presentation.
However, it is important to mention that cola contains caffeine, which is a carbonated beverage containing caffeine, while Fanta and Sprite have no caffeine. Relatively speaking, the ingredients of Sprite are simpler, and there is no pigment in the additive.
The different ingredients of raw materials lead to the differences in appearance and taste among cola, Fanta and Sprite.
From the appearance, cola is dark brown, dark in color and not transparent enough; Fanta is an orange liquid; Sprite is transparent, transparent, and you can clearly see the small bubbles on the surface.
From the taste point of view, cola contains caramel color and caffeine, which is sweet and slightly bitter. Fanta's positioning is orange soda, which focuses on sweet and sour taste. Later, the Coca-Cola Company also developed Fanta with apple, grape, lime, mango, peach, pineapple, watermelon and strawberry flavors. Sprite contains citric acid and sodium citrate, which tastes a little sour.
Learn from laziness.
After drinking Coke, Fanta and Sprite for so many years, everyone is familiar with their appearance and taste, but when it comes to cultural origins and raw materials, I believe many people are puzzled. After the above sharing, I believe everyone has a further understanding of the differences between these three carbonated drinks.
However, the last thing to remind you is that, as can be seen from the ingredient list, the main ingredient of carbonated drinks is carbonated water, plus a lot of sugar, food additives and essence, you must drink it in moderation. After all, it seems that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.