Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all
Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?
Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all
Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?
Human taste is actually quite remarkable, to the point of noticing a single drop of fruit juice in a liter of water if dissolved well. You don’t need much to add a basic flavour to stuff. The original coca cola recipe measures the various plant oils in drops per 2½ gallon. The recipe has been altered over the years, or course.
Coke is sugar, coloured sith sugar, flavoured by sugar, dissolved in acid because water wouldn’t be able to dissolve that much sugar without making you want to vomit, with a bunch of cafeïne. Oh, and some plant oils for flavour.
Diet coke is much less sugar (of a more complicated type), coloured by sugar, dissolved in acid, with a bunch of cafeïne and some plant oils for flavour.
Coke zero is acid with a tiny bit of sweetener, coloured by sugar, with a bunch of cafeïne and some plant oils for flavour.
Almost all of the taste of coke is sugar or sweetener. The other ingredients are added in such small quantities that they barely add up to a calorie per serving.
A 330mL can of coke contains 33 grams of sugar. Two cans of coke and you have exceeded your daily sugar intake (which includes all the other food and drinks you consume as well, so you’d better not eat any processed food for the rest of the day, let alone drink a glass of milk!).