I don’t mean in a chemical way I understand that part
I mean in a “why would they have to change the recipe for the us” way
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I’ll make an attempt at this. I do not remember Fanta growing up in the US but apparently it’s always been own by coke. The first time I had it was in Europe 20 years ago. Maybe it was a thing in other parts of the US but I believe it was Orange Crush was Coke’s local brand in my area and Sunkist was Pepsi’s. Wasn’t big orange soda fan until I had Fanta in Europe and it does taste different. Less sugary. When Fanta became Coke’s US main orange soda I’m thinking they just used the Orange Crush recipe and replaced the label. So the branding of Fanta in the US is meant to make you think it’s European Fanta when actually it’s just Orange Crush with a different name.
Europeans don’t like unnecessary/unnatural food coloring because it seems unhealthy (and often is). Bright orange is unnatural, so people prefer the normal pale color.
Americans love fake shit like glowing neon mountain dew and bright blue takis chips, so they added bright food coloring to fanta to appeal to the American market
A friend of mine was a flight attendant for a while, and they told me that Fanta tastes different in basically every country because they tweak the recipes to better fit local tastes in addition to local laws.
I’m Canada Fanta is (was?) a brand, and came in orange, grape, and cream soda.
Red40, a food coloring often used in american products, its not allowed in Europe. So European fanta lacks this food color and so doesnt look as red.
American here (lived in Europe for a bit)…European Fanta is straight up amazing, won’t touch American Fanta
there are also several fanta flavors, when talking about yellow fanta what comes to mind is pineapple fanta, not the US orange fanta
EU **Fanta gets its color from carrots, pumpkins, and orange fruit, while the US version gets it from dyes** (red 40 and yellow 6). Also about 3 times as much sugar in the US version versus the UK version, and the US Fanta has high fructose corn syrup while the UK version has sugar.
My 2 cents, having grown up in the US, lived 4 years in Germany, now returning to the US and not jazzed about the Idiocracy here…
In the EU, the gov pays for universal healthcare, so naturally they want you healthy. A healthy person is less expensive to maintain. They passed laws to keep you from poisoning your body with shit you didn’t need, i.e. dyes and HFCS (with the exception cigarettes… Still don’t understand that one). The EU folks also rely heavily on walking for transit. You can’t feed yourself shit day after day and move around as easily. Movement and exercise is a cultural norm.
In the US, the gov is full of capitalists with their hands in each other’s pockets. They don’t fund your healthcare, but they do in fact profit from you being sick and feeling like shit all the time. Not directly and overtly, but there’s funding and favors and money changing hands beyond your wildest dreams that we’re slowly uncovering. You can eat shit foods and drink shit drinks and sit on your ass all day feeling lazy… you don’t ever have to walk too far, and hardly any towns are walkable anymore. Further, the chemically made US Fanta is cheaper to produce and lasts longer, thus fattening the pockets of corporations. Many many US produced foods are loaded with sugar making a sugar drink need more “sugar” to taste sweet to our destroyed pallettes.
My opinions.
My 2 cents, having grown up in the US, lived 4 years in Germany, now returning to the US and not jazzed about the Idiocracy here…
In the EU, the gov pays for universal healthcare, so naturally they want you healthy. A healthy person is less expensive to maintain. They passed laws to keep you from poisoning your body with shit you didn’t need, i.e. dyes and HFCS (with the exception cigarettes… Still don’t understand that one). The EU folks also rely heavily on walking for transit. You can’t feed yourself shit day after day and move around as easily. Movement and exercise is a cultural norm.
In the US, the gov is full of capitalists with their hands in each other’s pockets. They don’t fund your healthcare, but they do in fact profit from you being sick and feeling like shit all the time. Not directly and overtly, but there’s funding and favors and money changing hands beyond your wildest dreams that we’re slowly uncovering. You can eat shit foods and drink shit drinks and sit on your ass all day feeling lazy… you don’t ever have to walk too far, and hardly any towns are walkable anymore. Further, the chemically made US Fanta is cheaper to produce and lasts longer, thus fattening the pockets of corporations. Many many US produced foods are loaded with sugar making a sugar drink need more “sugar” to taste sweet to our destroyed pallettes.
My opinions.
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