How the same beverage tastes different depending on what container it came in?

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Take coca cola for example, it tastes better and fresher out of a glass bottle rather than a can or plastic bottle, yet its the exact same drink.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Aluminum and plastic bottles can absorb some of the soda’s flavor and add flavor’s to it, leading to a milder taste. Glass doesn’t have that property.

Anonymous 0 Comments

If you poured Coke from a can into a glass and a Coke from a glass bottle into a glass, had someone switch them around and you then did a blind taste test, you would not be able to tell the difference. However, when drinking straight out of the can and the bottle, you are also “tasting” the container, which is why you think the two Cokes are different.