@@Brandon-w6s1p lol might not have seen it cuz you have not looked? Think it's there somewhere where you live, might just be some stores that orderes it and some dont
isn't that blue the color of anti-freeze? maybe you can use it as such... Anyone wanna try? The green looks like Dreft dish soap (don't know if it's available in US -might use different name though) which is a popular brand in EU...
@@Wrecker3DTbh I know that some of those sodas can be used as cooling fluid to clean the cooling system of your car from sediments and rust... so yeah, I would say, it can work as an anti-freeze
Soda's fun fact: Mountain Dew was forbidden in Europe for a long time, only after PepsiCo removed the BVO ingredient they were allowed to produce it for the EU. And I saw an article a couple of months ago that the FDA has finally filed a report to forbid the use of BVO in consumer products from 2024 on (after 50 years of it being forbidden in the EU)
Another fun fact. got something rusted up? put it in coke (american) itll clean it right up. though id recommend it being small, otherwise itd be expensive with that approach
Ingredients of Fanta Exotic in germany: Tried my best to translate it: Water, sugar, orange juice from orange juice concentrate, carbon dioxide, peach juice from peach juice concentrate, apple juice from apple juice concentrate, acidifier citric acid, coloring food (concentrate of carrot and safflower), acidifier malic acid, passion fruit juice from passion fruit juice concentrate, sweeteners (acesulfame K and aspartame), natural flavor, stabilizers (E 414, E 445, and E 412). Contains a source of phenylalanine. E 414 (Gum Arabic): A natural resin used as a stabilizer, thickener, and emulsifier. It helps prevent ingredients from separating in beverages and foods. E 445 (Glycerol esters of wood rosin): This additive acts as a stabilizer and emulsifier, aiding the mixing of oily and watery components. It's commonly found in carbonated drinks. E 412 (Guar gum): A plant-based thickener derived from guar beans. It's used to stabilize and thicken liquids, such as in beverages or sauces.
Getting more professional with each tasting ;) I work in the food industry (in Europe) and have taken a sensory training course to learn how to do professional tastings. Two tips for your next tasting session: 1. Smell the sample before you taste it and try to describe the smell as well 2. Always rinse your mouth with a sip of water between different samples so that the taste buds are neutralized and the residue from the previous sample does not remain on your tongue and affect the perception of the next sample. Can't wait to see more of these videos! 😄
im not sure rinsing them with water makes sense with products like this some things actually improve the taste and acts like flavor enhancors, and often sodas are used in those combos i get where you are going but to compare you also need to work from more then just memory if you go to a danish hotdog stand you ask for a cocio they come as a set almost automaticly, just like mc calls for a coke for some people and its not a bottle coke
as a german it's fascinating for me to see how you rank and describe these drinks, cause generally, fanta here is seen already as very, very sweet and sugary and many people avoid it because of that and you describing it as not as sugary as the american ones really gets me to wonder how (bad) the american ones must taste.
The US uses a different type of sugar that’s unhealthier, but sweeter (high fructose corn syrup). Though the real ugliness starts with all the stuff the US puts into soft drinks that’s flat out forbidden in Europe. So yeah, our soft drinks are unhealthy, but still way healthier than the US versions.
@@davidgantenbein9362 He did also mention that the US Fantas had around 60-70g of sugar each, where-as I think the European equivalent 50cl bottles in most cases have around 20-30g? If it has 70g of sugar in a 50cl bottle, that'd be like filling ~14% of the empty bottle with just pure sugar I'm pretty sure.
@@davidgantenbein9362 Many of those banned ingredients aren't banned, just have different names, the whole E numbers are basically the US food colourings.
I bursted out laughing when you described the exotic as mild in colour and light in sweetness, I love that soda, but it’s definitely one of the most colourful and sweet ones I drink - I think my tastebuds would faint in horror if I ever tasted a US soda 😂
Just to be sure. In Europe, if you want to look for additives, namely (but not exclusively) colors, you'd look for E, colors are between E100-E199. US name - EU "E-code", e.g.: Yellow 5 - E102 Yellow 6 - E110 Blue 1 - E133 Red 40 - E129 It doesn't mean these colors are used in EU nowadays, but when it's used, it would have the "E" code rather than "color number". Also, if something has "E" number, it doesn't necessarily means it is used in food. Or in the other way, "E" number doesn't necessarily means it is bad. For example "E300" is vitamin C, "E948" is oxygen and so on. Unfortunatelly many people looks for "E" numbers like it would be scarecrow or so, so many producers tends to use rather "common"(?)" name. So for example "yellow 5" (E102) would be specified as "tartrazine".
The sugar in European sodas might be from sugar beet, a local resource as cane sugar usually comes from South America. When demand is high they just mix beet and (whitened) cane sugar. Interestingly, for these Euro-sodas they mix sugar with stevia. This is also done with (Euro-) Pepsi regular cola, and doesn't give that chemical flavor. Some of the cans you are tasting are bottled in Germany but language being Scandinavian (Danish?).
However, all those listed colours are so called azo dyes. They were forbidden in Finland already in the 70's, but actually allowed again because of EU. they have a bad reputation and I don't think they are really used at all by local corporations. I believe they are responsible for that neon feel.
@@IWrocker as a coca cola adict i can say there's difference between coke bottled in Germany and the Netherlands, so i wonder how much different US coke would be...
@@hideouspatje It is not that different as I thought it would be. But it certainly isn't better than most of Cokes in Europe. For me, the Danish Coke has the best taste. And I think the worst taste had some from the West Balkans, but I don't know the exact country where it was from. Our Coke (Czechia) is somewhere on the average, but for me it's better than the US one. That's just my humble opinion. Everyone has different tastes. Try to look for those shops with foreign candies, snacks and drinks. I'm not totally shure, as I tasted it in the US, but they should have the US Coke there. We have a bunch of those shops in Prague, so I suppose you will have it in Germany/Netherlands as well.
In Europe, you can find: Poland: Classic Orange, Fanta Shokata (elderflower), and sometimes limited editions like Fanta Dark Mystery (blackberry-blueberry). Spain: Fanta Lemon and Fanta Strawberry & Kiwi. UK: Along with the classic, there's Fanta Fruit Twist, a mix of several fruits. Germany: Fanta Lemon and Fanta Mango & Dragonfruit. Italy: Fanta Arancia Rossa (red orange).
In Romania there was a Halloween edition with red orange. And in Germany you can also find the exotic one, the elder flower, strawberry &kiwi, grapes and mandarins(zero sugar)
for the people that don't know Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1941 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavor, was developed in Italy in 1955.
Jeah but saying it originated is too far if a stretch is only the name. Fanta is nothing like the WW2 fanta in Germany that's a totally different drink
From Germany here ! Love the comparison videos, its hard to get anything American here, literally because its banned. So seeing these is quite interesting. What I'm most shocked about is you describing the German Fantas as mild, because they are considered crazy sweet and sugary here. Maybe a palette difference?
Hi, the fantas he describes as german, actually only have labels in danish😅 So i think these are imported from denmark, but i don’t know, if that makes any difference still. Maybe german fantas are sweeter than the danish?
@ you’re probably right. I guess our fantas are “mild” when compared to the american ones then. I also find fanta very sugary here, so i wouldn’t dream of ever tasting an american one😭
@@barlin4972For orange soda you'll hear "Loux" (λουξ) a lot, but we have other regional/local brands as well. I would name other flavours and brands but I don't really drink sodas. (Some coke after some gyros, yeah)
I'm European. A few years ago "American food store" (that's the name of the store) opened close to where I was working. I decided to go there and I bought a can of soda. It was some U.S. brand which is not available here, I forgot the name. It did have a hint of some fruit but I've no idea what it was. 😅 But, after drinking half of the can, I experienced something that I'd best explain as an adrenaline rush, but worse. I really thought I'd need to visit E.R. My heart was pumping like crazy and I wanted to run/jump/scream/... all at once. It went away after like an hour. I still don't know what it was. Maybe that was "sugar rush". I enjoy sweets a lot but I don't think I've experienced "sugar rush" before that. Or after for that matter. 😅
Most sodas in northern Europe are beet sugar, not cane sugar. Especially in Germany and Sweden since we grow a lot of sugar beets. The sodas are from Denmark(.DK) not Germany (.DE) which you also can tell from the "Kun for export" which is Danish or Norwegian
The European Blue Fanta is called Shokata and is Elderflower and Lemon flavour. It's a blue bottle, not a blue liquid and the labels are always upside down for some reason.
It is eerily surprising how similar American products are in color, quantity and presentation to typical European household cleaning products. If I were the father of an American family emigrating to a European country with very young children, I would keep European cleaning products in a safe because my young children might mistake European cleaning products for American soft drinks.
Well we sadly had some cases in the 80s in Germany where immigrant families (mostly turkish people) who couldn't read or speak German, gave citrus cleaner to their kids thinking it was lemonade which lead to some problems obviously. Nowadays the packages do show that it's not something to drink
In Portugal you can find Fanta in Orange, Passion Fruit, Pineapple, Grape and Guarana flavours. There used to be Lemon Fanta here too but it was phased out in around 2002/2003
Hey! I would like to provide a little info. Those small cans were in Danish. My native tongue. It is a German can because there is a lot of border shopping going on between us and Germany. So as it said, it is meant for export to Denmark only. You got the translations down very well. Thank you for the great videos. It is pretty wild how it is in America with food items.
Not "to" Denmark but out of Denmark. It´s a tax thing. They can make and produce it inside Denmark and dedicate those cans for export so they are not taxed with Danish sugar tax. That some of them after ends in German border shops and are bought by Danes avoiding Danish sugar tax are all part of the "avoid tax" game. A lot of the "export only" cans though often have a higher quality than if locally produced (in the nations they are exported to), and fewer ingredients, as to make sure they do not contain anything that the importing nations have banned. It´s a bit like our pig and cow meat export. They live under better conditions and have stricter controls than demanded by EU, so they can be exported to more nations with highest demands. No matter if you live in Japan, UK, USA etc you can be sure that there are no artificial growth hormones or antibiotics in Danish meat and that anything organic labelled truly have only also been fed organic products throughout. A Danish beef will be marked and can be traced down to the single farm it came from so if any ever gets busted that farm is out of the game. Same with those cans. I bet they have a unique batch serial number. Danish authorities rules truly works, Full traceability, so if any try to cut a corner they will be out of business. The last 40 years there have been scandal after scandal hitting all the largest producers of baby milk powder except the Danish produced that are exported all over the world. We can be proud of the systems we have built to ensure that we export quality and the key always have been that the farmer, the soda producer or baby powder maker knows they WILL be busted and caught if they cheat why no one do. "Made in Denmark" rarely means you buy the cheapest product or solution but it will have the highest standards and quality and that´s how you get the best return of your investment no matter if a digestive product or a technical solution. It can be difficult for a Dane to understand but did you know that an American "organic" labelled beef can come from a cow that have been given an antibiotic shot as calf (just because) and have eaten up to 30% GMO wheat? So an American consumer cannot even buy a true organic meat product from their own nation unless they know a farmer they trust and get it directly and whom does that? We think we do things as it should be done and sometimes think others do the same, but I have followed many news sources for many years and you would be chocked to learn how some do things. The above clip demonstrates it fine. Why would you allow dyes and ingredients that have been banned all over the world for decades, after they have been linked to ADHD behaviour, allergenic provoking, and even linked to increased cancer possibility? Cows and pigs in USA are given antibiotic shots as standard just as they are given artificial growth hormones to increase weight fast. Now, guess what nation have huge problems with antibiotics resistance and an obese population?
I remember those crazy colorful sodas that were sold in Denmark when I was young. As a Swede I loved the the taste of them and the sweetness and I do think Denmark stopped with the crazy colors way later then Sweden. It’s the same with your hot dogs (pølsa) that was Lamborghini red before and today just normal natural red. But man in the 70s after you eat a couple of Danish hot dogs you where pissing red for days 😂😂😂😎
@@vansting I liked them as a child as well and still do. They are not bad for drinks either. I actually had a red one in the fridge and just checked ingredients list because of your comment. It states: Water, sugar, Citrusacid, natural aromas, calciumcarbonate (for longer preservation) and colours E 120 and E 163. It´s the E numbers that are the interesting part, I guess, so looked those up to figure out if something bad behind it and actually the result were "fun". The E 120 comes from extracts of a red beetle and E163 is a violet colouring, derived from the cell sap of plants, vegetables and flowers. Both E numbers above are not only approved in Denmark but in entire EU. I have seen Harboe trucks on the Øresund bridge so maybe you also can buy these sodas in Sweden? You can still get a very red sausage at a Hotdog stand but today most prefer the ones of highest quality, with as few "odd" ingredients as possible but after reading about E 120 it very well could be what they use for the "red" pølse/sausage today also. Next time you come by you can check out "Netto" or "Rema" and others that have Harboe sodas and find both a transparent red and green soda, if not available in Sweden.
@@Mike-zx1kx Why should the can be made in Germany, with Danish and German text, and then not delivered to Denmark? Why not write in English right away? I don't understand the world anymore.
The cyrilic text on Fanta Tropical is in Macedonian language :) never expected that I would see one all the way in US :) it was made and bottled by Skopska Pivara (located in Skopje) which also makes the best Coca-Cola drinks probably in Europe. One of the reasons they make Fanta and Coca Cola taste so good is that they use natural spring water, which we have in abundance here in Macedonia.
'' the best Coca-Cola drinks probably in Europe.''......... probably not...there are competitions, and the water is the key. If you have the best water, you easily win, and Norway has the best water in Europe, maybe in the world. Itis inly foreigners and idiots that buy water here. Tap water is what you get on those VOSS water bottles . Yes VOSS is ordinary tap water from Arendal (Voss is a small town in the mountains 400 km from Arendal, so that is just a name). So , the best bears as well as the best soft drinks are always won by a Norwegian company, because of the water
@@TheAngryAustrian US people have dulled taste buds and noses due to the extreme amount of chemicals in their food. I'm not joking nor exaggerating. Some things that have mild taste (in my country mild-tasting foods and snacks are very common) appear to US people as having zero taste at all. They just cannot taste it to begin with.
@@TheAngryAustrian If you think something tastes like dishsoap it's most likely a genetic receptor trait like with coriander. Or do you think it's on the market for years because people love the taste of dishsoap? For them it doesn't taste like that of course.
So as a Norwegian I can tell you that while the Fanta Exotic, Strawberry&Kiwi may reference the Coca-Cola Company HQ in Berlin, it's in fact Danish. The language on the can is danish, and the white tag around the ingredients list says "Kun for Export" wich means "Export Only/Only for Export".
The can is not danish but for Danes, if it was made in Denmark there would be pant on it, which there is not. This can is presumably sold at the border between Denmark and Germany, which is why there's Danish and German language on the can :)
@@heseits5157 Thing is. that is not where it is made at. It's the contact number for Fanta Berlin's offices. Like the OP said it's Danish. You can see clearly the DK part next to the Fanta logo at 3:20
men det siger tydeligt vis intet, det er åbentbart bare en skatte snydde kode. smag på dem før du snakker januar 2020 vil produkter fra The Coca-Cola Company og dets datterselskaber, der i øjeblikket bliver solgt i Tyskland ved den dansk-tyske grænse, blive leveret af Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland GmbH,
The digits in Germany are 400 - 440. I read the text from the exotic Fanta and thought too this was from a Scandinavian Country the second green is maybe from Bulgaria because the writing is Cyrillic :-) Greetings from Germany :-)
I can confirm that there are companies like Coca-Cola in Berlin that make drinks specifically for export purposes. But Products like that can vary. These products are meant to be sold in the stated country, for this country could have different regulations and laws for food stuff and sometimes the recipe needs to be adjusted.
13:30 Ian taking a sip from the "haunted apple" bottle, nearly leaving the liquid at the same level as before. That's a real indication how bad it is.😂😂
You need to promote your PO Box more - I'm sure you've loads of European and Australian viewers who will send you some of the weird and wonderful concoctions from around the globe. I would have thought that a lot of countries have alternatives to Fanta that might be even better.
7:10 Yes, they are from Germany, but produced for other european countries. 12:35 We have the same one in Germany for Halloween. My wifes, my and your reaction were the same. We couldn't drink it and threw it away. Actually, that made me think of your taste tests :) So very funny to see you test it now 😁 18:00 That is my favorite Fanta of all time. Exotic is ok, but Zitrone (lemon) is the best. ❤ 21:10 Interesting. I hate it because it is so extreme sweet for me. I just can't taste almost anything just sugar.
Sure Fanta as invention and brand is from Germany. But in most countries it is made locally. I noticed the Strawberry-Kiwi soda had Danish discription on it, and here Fanta have been licenced to Carlsberg, and is made in Fredericia.
The Fanta Exotic is definitely a very specific flavor. If you really focus it's like a sweet passion fruit, but it definitely is a distinct flavor that I could recognize in a second
German Fanta exotic: juice 3% (orange, passion fruit, peach), fruit concentrate (black currants, carrots, chokeberry, elderflower buds, lemon, safflower), aroma I also looked up Fanta Tropical and it seems it is similar to Exotic in some cases (orange, passion fruit, peach) without the other fruit concentrate but I also found some that are sold in Germany but imported from other EU that are only orange juice and aroma.
The green one that looked kinda orange-red was probably "blood orange" flavored? Cool to see such a variation btw, regardless of if some of them are "bad", its funny to see Fanta be a dozen (or more) different drinks around the world. Oh and i would love to see Ms IWrocker try more/you trying stuff together with her 👍
Dont worry about all the E-numbers, they are for the most part natural ingredients like color , conservation, regulator, stabilizer etc. Sugar etc is always measured in pr.100ml etc, so "35% would mean 35% sugar pr. 100ml. as am example. "Exotic" usually means some tropical fruits with some variolation from the "tropical" taste lol :) I still dont know if Fanta is common to find in Norway- But what we do have as a REALLY good alternativ is carbonated pure water with natural flavours, like lime, lemongrass, pineapple, peach, kiwi, pomegranate. Most in double mixes (except the pom). Quite refreshing and excellent for mixing! (Not just alcohol but with fruit juices)
in Bulgaria we do have those neon colors on the the cheapest brands and they are usually sell on most remote location or venues where you don't have a say what to buy and even then usually we go with bottle of water
Unfortunately, even though Bulgaria is part of the EU, the Coca Cola products are made with glucose fructose syrup and artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame, and not with real sugar like in the other EU countries.
Fun facts: the Strawberry/Kiwi and the Exotic are made in Germany but are specially brewed for export in Denmark with Danish text and everything, real fruit concentrate and natural flavors and colors. The Tropical is made in North Macedonia (the ex-Yugoslavian country, not the Greek province with the similar name), but I can't see the text as there's no focus in the closeup. I can't tell about the European yellow lemon type, as there was no focused close up, but it might also be German-made for the Danish market. The Exotic's ingredients are: water, sugar, natural fruit juice from concentrate 3% (oranges 2.5%, passion fruit 0.2%, peach 0.2%), carbon dioxide, citrus extract, citric acid(also known as E330), fruit and vegetable extract(blackcurrant, carrots, aronia chokeberries, elderberry, lemon, safflower).
the fun one to do would be to 1) watch the tango adverts for all the flavours, then at the end of them taste test any tango products you can get Blue fanta is a mainland europe flavour that appears occasionally in the uk, looks like elderflower or something
i love fanta mango since i was a child :) but the older i become, the less limonade i drink. thanks for your content. allways nice to see the world through other people eyes
Try to mix lemon fanta with a lager beer. We call this mix in spain "clara" or "champú" depending of the region. I think in Germany is common too. Some people prefer mixing with shweppes lemonead instead of fanta because schweppes is less sweet. Try it. I recomend you. Excuse my bad english, greetings from Catalonia!
I prefer mixing my Fanta lemon with tempranillo, picked that "recipy" up in Spain as well 😁 And I got my aunt hooked too, in fact we did a tasting where we mixed with Fanta orange, lemon and sprite respectively, and although all were good the lemon mix was the clear winner 🍋
In Estonia, I presume also in the rest of Europe, we have New Fanta, that has lower sugar content at about 4g per 100 ml. I understand it's supposed to phase out the older recipe.
@@ChuUnthor They're using sodium cyclamate, sodium saccharin as replacements for sugar and these for me don't seem to have any weird aftertastes like the older replacements.
In germany the sugar amount written on is per 100ml and per portion of 250ml. So you need to closely look. German Fanta orange has 7.6g per 100ml & 19g per 250ml. I take 25% Fanta adding 75% water to it. It's refreshing!
Mate you're an absolute degenerate with damaged taste buds. Fanta already barely has any flavour these days due to the sugar tax causing drinks to replace their sugar with sweetener. Nevermind diluting it hahahah. You'd like squash though which is everywhere in the UK, it's fruit juice concentrate you mix with water
Gum Arabic (E414 in the EU, I414 in the US) is a natural ingredient that has a wide range of health benefits and is extracted from the exudate of certain acacia trees. It is also what is on the back of postage stamps that you have to moisten to make them stick. In the US, gum ghatti is sometimes used as an alternative, which is not approved as a food additive in the EU.
Fanta Exotic is "Orange, Peach, Passion fruit" and it comes in two variations, one with no sugar in it and it is closer to a tea and the other version which has sugar in it and it is closer to Paradise in a can! I love it and I had been addicted to it before.
Since I was a teen, too, many decades ago I have tried to be a political consumer without being extremist about it. As a teen I learned that The Coca Cola company used their syrup extracts in a transfer pricing scheme to avoid paying taxes in the nations they sold their very highly priced products in. So a locally produced Coca Cola would cost double of a locally produced local cola soda would cost AND they did not pay any tax relatable to their actual profits. At the same time I have always found their massive focus on commercials annoying and contributing to polluting the media and even buildings. I have therefore not bought any Coca cola company products personally for over 30 years. The personal savings financially over the years are considerable and it feels good to know that the sodas I actually have bought have made profits in companies that actually pay tax locally. Think global, shop local! At least when quality are matched locally.
Currently drinking a Fruit Twist Fanta in the UK. Juices from Orange, Peach, Apple and Passion Fruit. A 330ml can is just 15g of sugar. And its 63kcal.
Yet it's full of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners so you have that gross bitter aftertaste. So you might as well just get a zero version since due to the sugar tax in the UK a lot of the UK drinks have had a lot of their sugar replaced with sucralose and aspartame. Only really coke kept their sugar. basically any drink below 60 calories is mostly a zero drink full of sweetener these days.
Hi Ian, just ask your followers to ship some specific products to you (as a sample, to a servicepunt near you) to do a taste/review video 😉 Saves you lots of effort to find what you're looking for.
As a german it's funny to see your reaction, but in a positive way. And you'll laugh, many here think Fanta (no matter which topic) is too sweet. ;) At our store we also have the "Beetljuice" apple flavor as a limited edition. We also have pineapple (I think from Spain), the spanish orange version taste a lot more like fruit compared to our german version. We also I guess have thinks like Fanta Lemon, Fanta Mandarine (Mandarin) and my all time favorite back in the days Mango - but they all changed to just Zero products over the years, at least here in Germany. And then there is also Fanta Cassis, Maracuja and Shokota (blue). Nothing beats an ice cold Fanta in a glas bottle in summer. Important note: Sugar ain't sugar. In The U.S. your sugar is of course from Corn Sugar, because it's cheaper but also more in common. Here it's rafinery sugar, which also explains especially on products like Dr. Pepper, why they taste different - in that case, better in the U.S.
It makes sense. There is a large exporting soda production from The Coca Cola Company in Denmark. Water is clean and plenty in Denmark. When consumers increasingly will focus on emission free made products they also will be able to use that as a selling point since over 60% of Denmark´s electricity are emission free, primarily coming from offshore windmills and soon that number will rise to over 100% and Denmark will become a permanent exporter of emission free energy.
@@A._Meroy Must be canned for the cross border trade then. VAT and duties are lower in Germany, so people cross the border to stock up on beer and soda.
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Hi, Its not same company in US and EU. I used to work in Coca Cola in Czech republic and the company was officially called Coca Cola HBC (Hellenic bottling company) and originated in Greece. Coca Cola company (as in the US) manufactures sodas in USA and licences the branding in different regions. In the warehouse/bottling line I was working at were like 10 or 15 people from the US company. So, its licensed (just like Monster energy, Sprite, etc.) and they can even be totally, because different people different taste I guess. Other example Monster energy samples made here in Prague were always sent to US Coca cola approved lab for testing. (it was every 2 or 3 months and it was the only drink - dont ask me why) And even if they had same ingredients they would taste different because of different water - same with beer. Keep up the good work and videos!
Thessaloniki Greece here. I wasn't surprised by the variety of europian fanta you found at the US as much as by how you found these tiny 125ml glasses to try them with. These glasses are standard in Turkey (slim waisted as they call them) for drinking their famous tea (demli çay as they call it) and are hard to find in the rest of the world. Except maybe where there are Turks in the world to use them for their tea. Amazing...
here are some fanta flavours i found in local supermarket yesterday there are at least the same amount again but not able to locate them. Orange: The original Fanta flavor, which was created in 1955 Strawberry: A popular flavor Grape: A popular flavor Peach: A popular flavor Pineapple: A popular flavor Pina Colada: A popular flavor Berry: A popular flavor Fruit Twist: A flavor available in 2 liter bottles Icy Lemon: A flavor available in 2 liter bottles Exotic: A flavor that includes orange, passionfruit, and peach
The US Fanta drinks remind me of some of the drinks we used to buy as kids in the UK back in the 70s and 80s. Same sort of colours and the ingredients also included syrup as far as I can recall. I'm surprised that this type of drink is still being sold in the US in 2024. It is genuinely worrying!
Literally literally every soda on the planet is made of a syrup. You mix coke zero syrup with carbonated water to make coke zero. Yes sodas are basically squash. This is how drinks machines work exactly. One nozzle dispenses carbonated water the other drink syrup. High fructose corn syrup in American drinks is just sugar from corn instead of sugar cane, it's not unhealthy or bad for you more than other sugar.
French born in 1990 here , Fanta orange was also like the one in the US , i noticed the change a few years ago when buying and drinking fanta , i still remember the old chemical taste .
Fanta Orange is available in most restaurants that have Coke Products. You can get many more Fanta flavors if they have Freestyle Machine but Orange is the Default flavor and my favorite.
saw one of them was a danish bottle, the excotic one :) here the ingredients in the Excotic one: Ingredients: Water, sugar, concentrate juice 3% (orange 2,6%, passion fruit 0.2%, peach 0.2%), carbon dioxide, orange extract, acidity regulator (E330), fruit and vegetable extracts (blackcurrant, carrot, aronia, shrubs, lemon, safflower), natural aromas.
Watching this, I just realized something. Every time I eat take-away from McDonalds, the drink makes me cough and leaves that slimy feeling in my throat. But the same doesn't happen with take-away from Burger King. And that's probably because over here Burger King gives the European bottled drink when you order take-away - while McDonalds gives the drink from their machine, which is syrup-based. (So the drink being suryp-based, even here in Europe with no red 6 or what ever, REALLY affects the taste and texture of the drink.)
So you still get good drinks from your mcdonalds. All the mcdonalds drinks in the UK taste like fucking asshole because it's all sweetener and too diluted..
When I grew up here in Germany, Fanta used to publish special cans during certain times of the year with Fanta Mango and I fondly remember them and their flavor. Nowadays they've added many flavors.
The blue Fanta Is called Fanta shokata. And From southeast Europe (Balkans)Lemon elderflower taste. And actually only the bottle Is blue the Drink itself Is slightly yellow.
The "german" Fanta appears to be originally distributed in Denmark. But the distribution of Fanta in this region of Europe is handled from germany, so that's why there are the .de endings.
The Excotic is produced in Fredericia Denmark and exported to Germany to be sold at the border shops. It only contains natural fruit juices and sugar, nothing else.
It is not true that it only contains natural fruit juices and sugar, because there are also these things. Water Carbon dioxide Acidity regulator (E330) And Stabilizer (E445, E414)
I bought fanta pineapple in the Netherlands till i saw that it has high fructose corn syrup in it and 0% juice so i switched to a danish pineapple soda with sugar and 7% juice. Tastes way better and is refreshing. If you ever see soda by Harboe try their pineapple drink. The strawberry kiwi fanta seems to be danish too.
A lot of those scary chemical names are just the formal names of food components. Isobutyric acid, for example, is one of the compounds in vanilla (amongst other foods), which makes sense in a pineapple drink. The US uses formal names for handling food intolerances while the EU (because of language differences across the single market) uses a number based system commonly called ‘E Numbers’ (each compound that’s approved for human consumption is given a number like E150, which is caramel). The actual dangerous part of those drinks is the monosaccharide sugar content, not the formally named food components.
I should clarify that sodium sorbate and calcium sorbate are banned in Europe, and I’m certainly not saying that all the additives are great for you. I’m just pointing out that simply having an E number or a scary name doesn’t mean it is necessarily bad for you. If I told you that Orangina contained high quantities of Methylpropenylcyclohexene, many would refuse to drink it. But I’ve just told you it contains the main essential oil that gives orange juice its flavour and frankly I’d be more worried if it didn’t contain it.
Fanta Tropical use to be marketed as a completely different soft drink brand called Lilt in the UK & Ireland. The full sugar version makes a decent homemade slushie.
UK Fanta flavours are normally Orange, Lemon, Fruit Twist (similar to the Exotic I think) and Pineapple and Grapefruit (the pineapple and grapefruit one used to be branded as 'Lilt' but changed to Fanta recently). That Apple one is currently available as a limited product, too, but only as a Zero product (which has artificial sweetners instead of sugar) and it seems to be the only one with artifical colours (brilliant blue E133). I envy the Elderflower one you had on the other video. I love elderflower and I might have to track that one down from one of the local European Supermarkets!
USA orange Fanta is the colour of the orange peel, whereas the European orange Fanta is the colour of the orange juice. That seems to be a theme among American fruit based soft drinks.
By this theory rhe berry one should hVe been purple as nixibg the red and lue skins feom lueberrys Nd rhe other ones and rhe apple was ore clorophylic green thsn the nice jellowish green peal of green apple Co cloution ifen if oloring after the peals was the i tent they failed
Fun fact: when something tastes "synthetic" it's because it's not synthetic enough. The aroma of something like a fruit is a lot of different aroma compounds in often very precise ratios, so while you synthetically could fairly easily make something that is the exact same flavor as the natural equivalent, it's just expensive and hard to get right. So producers oftentimes skimp out to save money. Things like strawberry and water melon especially are notorious for being hard and/or expensive to get right, whereas raspberry is pretty much just one single ketone responsible for all the aroma in a raspberry. Which is also why so much candy is raspberry flavored, it's pretty much the perfect compound for candy.
Actually it's short for German fantasy. Fanta was a German brand during WW2. Originally it was made with apple juice and whey. Today's Fanta original recipe was made in Italy in the 50s
That Beetlejuice-themed Fanta - we have an equivalent version here in the UK (called Fanta Afterlife), which I tried out. The ingredients list on the UK version is below: Carbonated Water Apple Juice from Concentrate (3.32%) Acid (Citric Acid) Vegetable and Fruit Concentrates (Sunflower, Lemon) Natural Flavourings, Sweeteners (Cyclamates, Acesulfame K, Sucralose) Preservative (Potassium Sorbate) Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrates) Colour (Brilliant Blue FCF) While not completely free of artificial stuff (as a sugar-free option, it can't be completely "clean"), it DOES have actual fruit juices in, unlike your US version.
No fruits where harmed in the making of US Fanta.
Underrated comment.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately way too funny 😂
Sad but true (and funny 😂)
Only Humans... but psssh, that's not a problem, we got plenty of those, right.
none used too
The green US fanta looks like the Fairy dishwashing liquid 😳
Don't know where you're from, but I seen this Fanta just this weekend in Asda in the UK (for Halloween).
Never seen green Fanta in the US. These are usually misleading videos
@@Brandon-w6s1p my local gas stations had them. im in the us
@@Brandon-w6s1p lol might not have seen it cuz you have not looked? Think it's there somewhere where you live, might just be some stores that orderes it and some dont
"waldmeister" (woodruff?) syrup ^^ ...deep green sugarliquid to mix with water
btw, blue looks like antifreeze XD
The colour of those US Fanta’s are wild! Look like cleaning solutions to clean your bathroom or kitchen 😂
isn't that blue the color of anti-freeze? maybe you can use it as such... Anyone wanna try?
The green looks like Dreft dish soap (don't know if it's available in US -might use different name though) which is a popular brand in EU...
If you are renovating your house and run out of paint, you can always use sodas.
@@Wrecker3DTbh I know that some of those sodas can be used as cooling fluid to clean the cooling system of your car from sediments and rust... so yeah, I would say, it can work as an anti-freeze
Thanks: spit out my coffee…
Maybe we in Europe use vibrant colors for wc cleaner, so people are aware of it's toxicity just from looking at it.
Soda's fun fact: Mountain Dew was forbidden in Europe for a long time, only after PepsiCo removed the BVO ingredient they were allowed to produce it for the EU.
And I saw an article a couple of months ago that the FDA has finally filed a report to forbid the use of BVO in consumer products from 2024 on (after 50 years of it being forbidden in the EU)
Mountain dew is made under license in Europe, in Denmark it's Carlsberg making it
I can't find a single can of Mountain Dew in Amsterdam. Im not a huge soda fan but I miss that flavor.
Here in Czech Republic, we still have Mountain Dew.. but its not that good as it used to be.
@@Grand_Prix_TV check in fake polish stores, they often have moutain dew, cans and bottles
Another fun fact. got something rusted up? put it in coke (american) itll clean it right up. though id recommend it being small, otherwise itd be expensive with that approach
Here in Romania we say about the bright blue and green sodas that they come in Chernobyl Blue and Fukushima green. :)
😂
Green sodas are the cheapest apple shampoo.
😂😂😂
Ingredients of Fanta Exotic in germany: Tried my best to translate it:
Water, sugar, orange juice from orange juice concentrate, carbon dioxide, peach juice from peach juice concentrate, apple juice from apple juice concentrate, acidifier citric acid, coloring food (concentrate of carrot and safflower), acidifier malic acid, passion fruit juice from passion fruit juice concentrate, sweeteners (acesulfame K and aspartame), natural flavor, stabilizers (E 414, E 445, and E 412). Contains a source of phenylalanine.
E 414 (Gum Arabic): A natural resin used as a stabilizer, thickener, and emulsifier. It helps prevent ingredients from separating in beverages and foods.
E 445 (Glycerol esters of wood rosin): This additive acts as a stabilizer and emulsifier, aiding the mixing of oily and watery components. It's commonly found in carbonated drinks.
E 412 (Guar gum): A plant-based thickener derived from guar beans. It's used to stabilize and thicken liquids, such as in beverages or sauces.
Getting more professional with each tasting ;)
I work in the food industry (in Europe) and have taken a sensory training course to learn how to do professional tastings.
Two tips for your next tasting session:
1. Smell the sample before you taste it and try to describe the smell as well
2. Always rinse your mouth with a sip of water between different samples so that the taste buds are neutralized and the residue from the previous sample does not remain on your tongue and affect the perception of the next sample.
Can't wait to see more of these videos! 😄
@@adriadriaaaaaa that is so cool 😎 Thank You for the advice!
im not sure rinsing them with water makes sense with products like this
some things actually improve the taste and acts like flavor enhancors, and often sodas are used in those combos
i get where you are going
but to compare you also need to work from more then just memory
if you go to a danish hotdog stand you ask for a cocio
they come as a set almost automaticly, just like mc calls for a coke for some people
and its not a bottle coke
Does US bottled water have additives? They can't drink the tap water in most if not all places there, or is that just marketing too?
If you have it, it's also better to put a cover on the glass to prevent smells from mingling.
as a german it's fascinating for me to see how you rank and describe these drinks, cause generally, fanta here is seen already as very, very sweet and sugary and many people avoid it because of that and you describing it as not as sugary as the american ones really gets me to wonder how (bad) the american ones must taste.
100% pure orange or apple juice has around 10% sugar content.
The US uses a different type of sugar that’s unhealthier, but sweeter (high fructose corn syrup). Though the real ugliness starts with all the stuff the US puts into soft drinks that’s flat out forbidden in Europe. So yeah, our soft drinks are unhealthy, but still way healthier than the US versions.
@@davidgantenbein9362 He did also mention that the US Fantas had around 60-70g of sugar each, where-as I think the European equivalent 50cl bottles in most cases have around 20-30g? If it has 70g of sugar in a 50cl bottle, that'd be like filling ~14% of the empty bottle with just pure sugar I'm pretty sure.
A question for a German: Did you read the red can? That seems to be Danish, or something, but it does say ".de" and "Berlin"?
@@davidgantenbein9362 Many of those banned ingredients aren't banned, just have different names, the whole E numbers are basically the US food colourings.
I bursted out laughing when you described the exotic as mild in colour and light in sweetness, I love that soda, but it’s definitely one of the most colourful and sweet ones I drink - I think my tastebuds would faint in horror if I ever tasted a US soda 😂
Just to be sure. In Europe, if you want to look for additives, namely (but not exclusively) colors, you'd look for E, colors are between E100-E199.
US name - EU "E-code", e.g.:
Yellow 5 - E102
Yellow 6 - E110
Blue 1 - E133
Red 40 - E129
It doesn't mean these colors are used in EU nowadays, but when it's used, it would have the "E" code rather than "color number".
Also, if something has "E" number, it doesn't necessarily means it is used in food. Or in the other way, "E" number doesn't necessarily means it is bad. For example "E300" is vitamin C, "E948" is oxygen and so on. Unfortunatelly many people looks for "E" numbers like it would be scarecrow or so, so many producers tends to use rather "common"(?)" name. So for example "yellow 5" (E102) would be specified as "tartrazine".
Thank you for the detailed explanation❤
Yes I had a great little paperback book in 1980's called "E for Additives" that explained them all.
The sugar in European sodas might be from sugar beet, a local resource as cane sugar usually comes from South America. When demand is high they just mix beet and (whitened) cane sugar. Interestingly, for these Euro-sodas they mix sugar with stevia. This is also done with (Euro-) Pepsi regular cola, and doesn't give that chemical flavor.
Some of the cans you are tasting are bottled in Germany but language being Scandinavian (Danish?).
However, all those listed colours are so called azo dyes. They were forbidden in Finland already in the 70's, but actually allowed again because of EU. they have a bad reputation and I don't think they are really used at all by local corporations. I believe they are responsible for that neon feel.
@@youserawaiting3876 Sugar (sucrose) is highly processed 99.9% pure and you shouldn't be able to taste the difference between beet or cane.
17:55 Fanta Lemon was long time my favorite, but they change the Formula, it was WAY better ten years ago
Oooof same. It used to be my favorite and I hate it now 🥲
My dude doing a master's in fantology 😂 I swear I'm making you a fancy diploma in Canva.
hahahaha
@@PaulinaHagath haha 😆 love that 🎉
“Certified Fantology Major” 😎
milking that fanta cow... and good on him he found a niche. keep em coming iwrocker😀
@@IWrocker as a coca cola adict i can say there's difference between coke bottled in Germany and the Netherlands, so i wonder how much different US coke would be...
@@hideouspatje It is not that different as I thought it would be. But it certainly isn't better than most of Cokes in Europe. For me, the Danish Coke has the best taste. And I think the worst taste had some from the West Balkans, but I don't know the exact country where it was from. Our Coke (Czechia) is somewhere on the average, but for me it's better than the US one. That's just my humble opinion. Everyone has different tastes.
Try to look for those shops with foreign candies, snacks and drinks. I'm not totally shure, as I tasted it in the US, but they should have the US Coke there. We have a bunch of those shops in Prague, so I suppose you will have it in Germany/Netherlands as well.
In Europe, you can find:
Poland: Classic Orange, Fanta Shokata (elderflower), and sometimes limited editions like Fanta Dark Mystery (blackberry-blueberry).
Spain: Fanta Lemon and Fanta Strawberry & Kiwi.
UK: Along with the classic, there's Fanta Fruit Twist, a mix of several fruits.
Germany: Fanta Lemon and Fanta Mango & Dragonfruit.
Italy: Fanta Arancia Rossa (red orange).
In Romania there was a Halloween edition with red orange. And in Germany you can also find the exotic one, the elder flower, strawberry &kiwi, grapes and mandarins(zero sugar)
Netherlands: Fanta cassis+ Berry
Germany: Fanta Zero Oreo
Portugal: Orange, Pineapple, Passion Fruit are the most common
for the people that don't know Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1941 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavor, was developed in Italy in 1955.
Jeah but saying it originated is too far if a stretch is only the name. Fanta is nothing like the WW2 fanta in Germany that's a totally different drink
@@CoL_DrakeSo when a car manufacturer makes a completely new car they are the same manufacturer only in name now?
@@CoL_Drake genaU
Yes, 'My name is Andong' made a good video about it.
Interesting, didn't know that was the beginning, I thought Coca-Cola created Fanta as a more fruit version.
From Germany here ! Love the comparison videos, its hard to get anything American here, literally because its banned. So seeing these is quite interesting. What I'm most shocked about is you describing the German Fantas as mild, because they are considered crazy sweet and sugary here. Maybe a palette difference?
Hi, the fantas he describes as german, actually only have labels in danish😅 So i think these are imported from denmark, but i don’t know, if that makes any difference still. Maybe german fantas are sweeter than the danish?
@@frederikkejrgensen4514 I'm pretty sure in Europe everyone has the same Fantas, besides some exotic flavours
@ you’re probably right. I guess our fantas are “mild” when compared to the american ones then. I also find fanta very sugary here, so i wouldn’t dream of ever tasting an american one😭
In Europe, a lot depends on what country e.g. Fanta is from. Greek has 20 percent fruit juice and Czech 5 percent. I mean, like orange.
In Greece fanta is a "last resort" drink, we only buy it when the local brands aren't available.
@@TheJohn_Highway Yeah, I don't drink Fanta, Sprite, etc. either. In Greece, I'd only drink orange juice.
@@TheJohn_Highway What are the names of the local brands?
@@barlin4972For orange soda you'll hear "Loux" (λουξ) a lot, but we have other regional/local brands as well.
I would name other flavours and brands but I don't really drink sodas. (Some coke after some gyros, yeah)
Greek Fanta is the most orange juicy Fanta you can get. Delicious for us non greeks!
I'm European. A few years ago "American food store" (that's the name of the store) opened close to where I was working. I decided to go there and I bought a can of soda. It was some U.S. brand which is not available here, I forgot the name. It did have a hint of some fruit but I've no idea what it was. 😅 But, after drinking half of the can, I experienced something that I'd best explain as an adrenaline rush, but worse. I really thought I'd need to visit E.R. My heart was pumping like crazy and I wanted to run/jump/scream/... all at once. It went away after like an hour. I still don't know what it was. Maybe that was "sugar rush". I enjoy sweets a lot but I don't think I've experienced "sugar rush" before that. Or after for that matter. 😅
Are you sure it wasn't an energy drink?
@@phnx418 Energy drinks are mainly sugar in different form. US soda is like European energy drink without the energy part.
@@phnx418 if it was an energy drink, it wasn't written on the can. Maybe that's not mandatory, idk. I haven't read the ingredients list though.
Was it Mountain Dew? That has caffeine!
@@ajrwilde14 hm, might have been. Can (colors) at least look similar. 🤔
Most sodas in northern Europe are beet sugar, not cane sugar. Especially in Germany and Sweden since we grow a lot of sugar beets. The sodas are from Denmark(.DK) not Germany (.DE) which you also can tell from the "Kun for export" which is Danish or Norwegian
The Netherlands also grows sugar beets. In among others Hoogkerk there is a sugar factory Cosun Beet Company, formerly known as Suiker Unie.
In Italy it's almost exclusively beet sugar as well!
Same in Spain AFAIK
It did say .de but it is Danish :)
its danish. in norwegian its "Kun for eksport" its almost the same but danish switches up some letters but the words are essentially the same :D
The European Blue Fanta is called Shokata and is Elderflower and Lemon flavour.
It's a blue bottle, not a blue liquid and the labels are always upside down for some reason.
It is eerily surprising how similar American products are in color, quantity and presentation to typical European household cleaning products. If I were the father of an American family emigrating to a European country with very young children, I would keep European cleaning products in a safe because my young children might mistake European cleaning products for American soft drinks.
Even without being from America that's a good habit tho, kids would try anything colorful
SO TRUE
The sad part is that your kids are probably better off drinking those cleaning products...
@@kobodera8261 This made my evening :D :D :D.
Well we sadly had some cases in the 80s in Germany where immigrant families (mostly turkish people) who couldn't read or speak German, gave citrus cleaner to their kids thinking it was lemonade which lead to some problems obviously. Nowadays the packages do show that it's not something to drink
In Portugal you can find Fanta in Orange, Passion Fruit, Pineapple, Grape and Guarana flavours. There used to be Lemon Fanta here too but it was phased out in around 2002/2003
Gonna be honest, referencing fantas by color rather than flavor is already wild to me. Never heard that in France at least.
J'avoue que "fanta rouge" chez nous c'est plutôt "fanta fraise" ou mieux celui mangue/fruit du dragon ♡
Here in the Netherlands we also have Fanta Cassis which is blackberry flavour, with blackberry juice,, it is purple, but a natural dark purple
Sorry to correct you here, but it's black current (Zwarte bes), not black berry (braam).
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Sounds great !
@@elricthebald I love everything black currant, do you have the granini one with guarana as well?
Sounds yum, 😋 blackcurrant or blackberry
Fanta cassis is the best soda ever.
Hey! I would like to provide a little info. Those small cans were in Danish. My native tongue.
It is a German can because there is a lot of border shopping going on between us and Germany. So as it said, it is meant for export to Denmark only.
You got the translations down very well. Thank you for the great videos. It is pretty wild how it is in America with food items.
Not "to" Denmark but out of Denmark. It´s a tax thing. They can make and produce it inside Denmark and dedicate those cans for export so they are not taxed with Danish sugar tax. That some of them after ends in German border shops and are bought by Danes avoiding Danish sugar tax are all part of the "avoid tax" game. A lot of the "export only" cans though often have a higher quality than if locally produced (in the nations they are exported to), and fewer ingredients, as to make sure they do not contain anything that the importing nations have banned. It´s a bit like our pig and cow meat export. They live under better conditions and have stricter controls than demanded by EU, so they can be exported to more nations with highest demands. No matter if you live in Japan, UK, USA etc you can be sure that there are no artificial growth hormones or antibiotics in Danish meat and that anything organic labelled truly have only also been fed organic products throughout. A Danish beef will be marked and can be traced down to the single farm it came from so if any ever gets busted that farm is out of the game. Same with those cans. I bet they have a unique batch serial number. Danish authorities rules truly works, Full traceability, so if any try to cut a corner they will be out of business. The last 40 years there have been scandal after scandal hitting all the largest producers of baby milk powder except the Danish produced that are exported all over the world. We can be proud of the systems we have built to ensure that we export quality and the key always have been that the farmer, the soda producer or baby powder maker knows they WILL be busted and caught if they cheat why no one do. "Made in Denmark" rarely means you buy the cheapest product or solution but it will have the highest standards and quality and that´s how you get the best return of your investment no matter if a digestive product or a technical solution.
It can be difficult for a Dane to understand but did you know that an American "organic" labelled beef can come from a cow that have been given an antibiotic shot as calf (just because) and have eaten up to 30% GMO wheat? So an American consumer cannot even buy a true organic meat product from their own nation unless they know a farmer they trust and get it directly and whom does that?
We think we do things as it should be done and sometimes think others do the same, but I have followed many news sources for many years and you would be chocked to learn how some do things. The above clip demonstrates it fine. Why would you allow dyes and ingredients that have been banned all over the world for decades, after they have been linked to ADHD behaviour, allergenic provoking, and even linked to increased cancer possibility? Cows and pigs in USA are given antibiotic shots as standard just as they are given artificial growth hormones to increase weight fast. Now, guess what nation have huge problems with antibiotics resistance and an obese population?
I remember those crazy colorful sodas that were sold in Denmark when I was young. As a Swede I loved the the taste of them and the sweetness and I do think Denmark stopped with the crazy colors way later then Sweden. It’s the same with your hot dogs (pølsa) that was Lamborghini red before and today just normal natural red. But man in the 70s after you eat a couple of Danish hot dogs you where pissing red for days 😂😂😂😎
@@vansting I liked them as a child as well and still do. They are not bad for drinks either. I actually had a red one in the fridge and just checked ingredients list because of your comment.
It states: Water, sugar, Citrusacid, natural aromas, calciumcarbonate (for longer preservation) and colours E 120 and E 163.
It´s the E numbers that are the interesting part, I guess, so looked those up to figure out if something bad behind it and actually the result were "fun".
The E 120 comes from extracts of a red beetle and E163 is a violet colouring, derived from the cell sap of plants, vegetables and flowers. Both E numbers above are not only approved in Denmark but in entire EU. I have seen Harboe trucks on the Øresund bridge so maybe you also can buy these sodas in Sweden? You can still get a very red sausage at a Hotdog stand but today most prefer the ones of highest quality, with as few "odd" ingredients as possible but after reading about E 120 it very well could be what they use for the "red" pølse/sausage today also. Next time you come by you can check out "Netto" or "Rema" and others that have Harboe sodas and find both a transparent red and green soda, if not available in Sweden.
@@Mike-zx1kx Why should the can be made in Germany, with Danish and German text, and then not delivered to Denmark? Why not write in English right away? I don't understand the world anymore.
@@ben9755 boarder shops a lot of Danes cross over the boarder to get cheaper manily beer but also sodas
The cyrilic text on Fanta Tropical is in Macedonian language :) never expected that I would see one all the way in US :)
it was made and bottled by Skopska Pivara (located in Skopje) which also makes the best Coca-Cola drinks probably in Europe.
One of the reasons they make Fanta and Coca Cola taste so good is that they use natural spring water, which we have in abundance here in Macedonia.
'' the best Coca-Cola drinks probably in Europe.''......... probably not...there are competitions, and the water is the key. If you have the best water, you easily win, and Norway has the best water in Europe, maybe in the world. Itis inly foreigners and idiots that buy water here. Tap water is what you get on those VOSS water bottles . Yes VOSS is ordinary tap water from Arendal (Voss is a small town in the mountains 400 km from Arendal, so that is just a name).
So , the best bears as well as the best soft drinks are always won by a Norwegian company, because of the water
In Fanta Exotic is: Currant, Carrot, Chokeberries, Elderberries and Lemone/Citris
Crazy that fanta exotic tastes mild to him. I hate it, it tastes like dishsoap.
@@TheAngryAustrian US people have dulled taste buds and noses due to the extreme amount of chemicals in their food. I'm not joking nor exaggerating. Some things that have mild taste (in my country mild-tasting foods and snacks are very common) appear to US people as having zero taste at all. They just cannot taste it to begin with.
@@TheAngryAustrian If you think something tastes like dishsoap it's most likely a genetic receptor trait like with coriander. Or do you think it's on the market for years because people love the taste of dishsoap? For them it doesn't taste like that of course.
@@vomm people drink rootbeer, for a third of the population it tastes like mouthwash.
@@TheAngryAustrian Don't know what's your point. I have explained why. Another example does not change my explanation.
So as a Norwegian I can tell you that while the Fanta Exotic, Strawberry&Kiwi may reference the Coca-Cola Company HQ in Berlin, it's in fact Danish. The language on the can is danish, and the white tag around the ingredients list says "Kun for Export" wich means "Export Only/Only for Export".
The can is not danish but for Danes, if it was made in Denmark there would be pant on it, which there is not. This can is presumably sold at the border between Denmark and Germany, which is why there's Danish and German language on the can :)
AAAND it also says DK not DE on the can on the close-up xD
@hellprince1 brother it doesn't, read what it says and where it's made in Berlin
@@heseits5157 Thing is. that is not where it is made at. It's the contact number for Fanta Berlin's offices. Like the OP said it's Danish. You can see clearly the DK part next to the Fanta logo at 3:20
@hellprince1 but the thing is that I am danish and ours do not look like that, I explained it earlier to another one
The fanta rabbit hole is still being explored!
Love it.
You are now a certified Fanta review channel. I respect it.
3:20 The first 3 digits of a product's barcode actually indicate the country code where the product was made.
570 to 579 = Denmark
men det siger tydeligt vis intet, det er åbentbart bare en skatte snydde kode.
smag på dem før du snakker
januar 2020 vil produkter fra The Coca-Cola Company og dets datterselskaber, der i øjeblikket bliver solgt i Tyskland ved den dansk-tyske grænse, blive leveret af Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland GmbH,
Can confirm. Most of the text on the can is Danish :)
I also thought the spelling was danish. Or first swedish since I am swedish but then I saw the difference 😅 Nice to see I was once correct 😂
The digits in Germany are 400 - 440. I read the text from the exotic Fanta and thought too this was from a Scandinavian Country the second green is maybe from Bulgaria because the writing is Cyrillic :-)
Greetings from Germany :-)
I can confirm that there are companies like Coca-Cola in Berlin that make drinks specifically for export purposes. But Products like that can vary. These products are meant to be sold in the stated country, for this country could have different regulations and laws for food stuff and sometimes the recipe needs to be adjusted.
13:30 Ian taking a sip from the "haunted apple" bottle, nearly leaving the liquid at the same level as before. That's a real indication how bad it is.😂😂
You need to promote your PO Box more - I'm sure you've loads of European and Australian viewers who will send you some of the weird and wonderful concoctions from around the globe. I would have thought that a lot of countries have alternatives to Fanta that might be even better.
7:10 Yes, they are from Germany, but produced for other european countries.
12:35 We have the same one in Germany for Halloween. My wifes, my and your reaction were the same. We couldn't drink it and threw it away.
Actually, that made me think of your taste tests :) So very funny to see you test it now 😁
18:00 That is my favorite Fanta of all time. Exotic is ok, but Zitrone (lemon) is the best. ❤
21:10 Interesting. I hate it because it is so extreme sweet for me. I just can't taste almost anything just sugar.
Sure Fanta as invention and brand is from Germany. But in most countries it is made locally.
I noticed the Strawberry-Kiwi soda had Danish discription on it, and here Fanta have been licenced to Carlsberg, and is made in Fredericia.
Left is Fanta from the Fallout universe.
Nuke-a-Fanta 😂
@@MrMazza4321 Flanking the glowing box of Twinkies in the middle.
@@MrMazza4321 Fanta Quantum lol...
The Fanta Exotic is definitely a very specific flavor. If you really focus it's like a sweet passion fruit, but it definitely is a distinct flavor that I could recognize in a second
I admire your focus on the goal of drinking all Fanta from USA Fanta Reserves 🤣🤣🤣
The first video is almost at 1 million views. He should do another one if he finds the red US Fanta somewhere! haha 😅
if he keeps that up he is putting his liver in serious danger. better stop it before it gets really damaged
You should really try the zero sugar version. I love fanta lemon zero, so refreshing in summer ☀️
Yes, this is my favourite too! But I actually think Fanta Lemon is the soda where the sugar vs sugar free versions are most identical.
@@idadamgaard4351 it is, absolutely.
German Fanta exotic: juice 3% (orange, passion fruit, peach), fruit concentrate (black currants, carrots, chokeberry, elderflower buds, lemon, safflower), aroma
I also looked up Fanta Tropical and it seems it is similar to Exotic in some cases (orange, passion fruit, peach) without the other fruit concentrate but I also found some that are sold in Germany but imported from other EU that are only orange juice and aroma.
'Like drinking cake' I was laughing soo hard at this! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Your Fanta series is fun to watch
@@EuroEchoes thanks 🙏 Good to hear, they are fun to make 😎
Fanta exotic is my favorite. Elderflower & Lemon is also good from time to time but it's rather rare.
I was just watching a documentary series about Czech video games on Česká Televize and suddenly a clip of you playing Euro Truck appeared 😂
Maaan iss famouuss 🥳🥳🥳
@@pezza4798 what!? That’s actually crazy 🤣🤣🎉🎉
@pezza4798 link for us and @IWrocker?
The green one that looked kinda orange-red was probably "blood orange" flavored? Cool to see such a variation btw, regardless of if some of them are "bad", its funny to see Fanta be a dozen (or more) different drinks around the world. Oh and i would love to see Ms IWrocker try more/you trying stuff together with her 👍
I love the Fanta Tropical, it genuinely such a good soda. I prefer it way more than any other flavor and I always get it when I can.
Dont worry about all the E-numbers, they are for the most part natural ingredients like color , conservation, regulator, stabilizer etc. Sugar etc is always measured in pr.100ml etc, so "35% would mean 35% sugar pr. 100ml. as am example.
"Exotic" usually means some tropical fruits with some variolation from the "tropical" taste lol :)
I still dont know if Fanta is common to find in Norway- But what we do have as a REALLY good alternativ is carbonated pure water with natural flavours, like lime, lemongrass, pineapple, peach, kiwi, pomegranate. Most in double mixes (except the pom). Quite refreshing and excellent for mixing! (Not just alcohol but with fruit juices)
That Fanta lemon is great with gin!!!😊
Thanks for tip! 👍😄
Will try, thanks from Prague! 😉
Schweppes Wild Berries is the best to mix with Gin imo
In spain we mix it with beer
Or with vodka, both work perfectly 👍
It's crazy for me as a German to see this differences.
My favorite EU Fanta is Mango and Dragonfruit in a dark pink/red can. It's awesome!
in Bulgaria we do have those neon colors on the the cheapest brands and they are usually sell on most remote location or venues where you don't have a say what to buy and even then usually we go with bottle of water
In Spain too I think.
Unfortunately, even though Bulgaria is part of the EU, the Coca Cola products are made with glucose fructose syrup and artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame, and not with real sugar like in the other EU countries.
@@stanitodo1075 SACRILEGE! My condoleances
Fun facts: the Strawberry/Kiwi and the Exotic are made in Germany but are specially brewed for export in Denmark with Danish text and everything, real fruit concentrate and natural flavors and colors. The Tropical is made in North Macedonia (the ex-Yugoslavian country, not the Greek province with the similar name), but I can't see the text as there's no focus in the closeup. I can't tell about the European yellow lemon type, as there was no focused close up, but it might also be German-made for the Danish market. The Exotic's ingredients are: water, sugar, natural fruit juice from concentrate 3% (oranges 2.5%, passion fruit 0.2%, peach 0.2%), carbon dioxide, citrus extract, citric acid(also known as E330), fruit and vegetable extract(blackcurrant, carrots, aronia chokeberries, elderberry, lemon, safflower).
IWrocker descending into the rabbit hole of lemonade.
the fun one to do would be to 1) watch the tango adverts for all the flavours, then at the end of them taste test any tango products you can get
Blue fanta is a mainland europe flavour that appears occasionally in the uk, looks like elderflower or something
The 2nd most hydrated person on YT just after BadlandsChugs
@@gigantus9001 oh boy I could never compete with Chugs.. now that guy is hydrated 🤣😎🎉
i love fanta mango since i was a child :) but the older i become, the less limonade i drink. thanks for your content. allways nice to see the world through other people eyes
Try to mix lemon fanta with a lager beer. We call this mix in spain "clara" or "champú" depending of the region. I think in Germany is common too. Some people prefer mixing with shweppes lemonead instead of fanta because schweppes is less sweet. Try it. I recomend you. Excuse my bad english, greetings from Catalonia!
That's basically a Radler
I've seen that in the Netherlands too. In my region it is called 'sneeuwwitje' or in English snow white.
Fanta with Jägermeister (Germany)
I prefer mixing my Fanta lemon with tempranillo, picked that "recipy" up in Spain as well 😁 And I got my aunt hooked too, in fact we did a tasting where we mixed with Fanta orange, lemon and sprite respectively, and although all were good the lemon mix was the clear winner 🍋
The Lemon one is the best
In Estonia, I presume also in the rest of Europe, we have New Fanta, that has lower sugar content at about 4g per 100 ml. I understand it's supposed to phase out the older recipe.
I hope the US will do that too one day and anyway it's not refressing to drink lots of sugar syrup.
yeah and they taste like shit
That just means they're using other sweeteners, which generally taste crap
@@ChuUnthor They're using sodium cyclamate, sodium saccharin as replacements for sugar and these for me don't seem to have any weird aftertastes like the older replacements.
@tonysium5742 I prefer Stevia, but Saccharine is okay enough I guess. As long as it ain't aspartame or acetsulfame, which taste like rat's ass
In germany the sugar amount written on is per 100ml and per portion of 250ml. So you need to closely look. German Fanta orange has 7.6g per 100ml & 19g per 250ml.
I take 25% Fanta adding 75% water to it. It's refreshing!
Mate you're an absolute degenerate with damaged taste buds. Fanta already barely has any flavour these days due to the sugar tax causing drinks to replace their sugar with sweetener. Nevermind diluting it hahahah.
You'd like squash though which is everywhere in the UK, it's fruit juice concentrate you mix with water
0:21 Wow, that's quite an old map of Europe :)
@@tomscorpion6288 gotta love Google lol
I often see maps with Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia still on there, at least it's more recent than that.
For me it's looking new what is different in the map?
@@theslow-by5co Serbia and Montenegro still together, even though Montenegro gained independence in June 2006 (18 years ago).
Missing the purple 'cassis' (blackberry) Fanta. We have those in the Netherlands.
300 calories in a 0.5 liter drink is insane. Drinking that is like eating a small meal, except it has way more sugar
Gum Arabic (E414 in the EU, I414 in the US) is a natural ingredient that has a wide range of health benefits and is extracted from the exudate of certain acacia trees.
It is also what is on the back of postage stamps that you have to moisten to make them stick.
In the US, gum ghatti is sometimes used as an alternative, which is not approved as a food additive in the EU.
We do have the Beetlejuice special edition in Europe, and it's also green like that, but it's zero sugar
Fanta Exotic is "Orange, Peach, Passion fruit" and it comes in two variations, one with no sugar in it and it is closer to a tea and the other version which has sugar in it and it is closer to Paradise in a can! I love it and I had been addicted to it before.
Since I was a teen, too, many decades ago I have tried to be a political consumer without being extremist about it. As a teen I learned that The Coca Cola company used their syrup extracts in a transfer pricing scheme to avoid paying taxes in the nations they sold their very highly priced products in. So a locally produced Coca Cola would cost double of a locally produced local cola soda would cost AND they did not pay any tax relatable to their actual profits. At the same time I have always found their massive focus on commercials annoying and contributing to polluting the media and even buildings. I have therefore not bought any Coca cola company products personally for over 30 years. The personal savings financially over the years are considerable and it feels good to know that the sodas I actually have bought have made profits in companies that actually pay tax locally. Think global, shop local! At least when quality are matched locally.
Since I was, not since I were.
Literally no one cares about was/where. For most here English is second or third or even fourth language
@@Ilar-en7lg Corrected.
@@Mike-zx1kx Ok
@@CoL_Drake Literally people care. Just because you don't, it doesn't mean the rest of people don't care either.
1:34 Here in Europe there is the green and blue USA Fanta also, however that here the same color you can find with tooth mouthwashes
Currently drinking a Fruit Twist Fanta in the UK.
Juices from Orange, Peach, Apple and Passion Fruit.
A 330ml can is just 15g of sugar. And its 63kcal.
Fruit twist is a nice shout 😋
@@CrazyInWeston that’s great and sounds delicious 😎🎉
Yet it's full of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners so you have that gross bitter aftertaste. So you might as well just get a zero version since due to the sugar tax in the UK a lot of the UK drinks have had a lot of their sugar replaced with sucralose and aspartame. Only really coke kept their sugar. basically any drink below 60 calories is mostly a zero drink full of sweetener these days.
It's really bad , never liked it , but the elderflower flavour you can get from Europe "shokata" is up there with the greats
Passion fruit You say
Hi Ian, just ask your followers to ship some specific products to you (as a sample, to a servicepunt near you) to do a taste/review video 😉
Saves you lots of effort to find what you're looking for.
I like the inside setting 🤗
As a german it's funny to see your reaction, but in a positive way. And you'll laugh, many here think Fanta (no matter which topic) is too sweet. ;)
At our store we also have the "Beetljuice" apple flavor as a limited edition.
We also have pineapple (I think from Spain), the spanish orange version taste a lot more like fruit compared to our german version. We also I guess have thinks like Fanta Lemon, Fanta Mandarine (Mandarin) and my all time favorite back in the days Mango - but they all changed to just Zero products over the years, at least here in Germany. And then there is also Fanta Cassis, Maracuja and Shokota (blue).
Nothing beats an ice cold Fanta in a glas bottle in summer.
Important note: Sugar ain't sugar. In The U.S. your sugar is of course from Corn Sugar, because it's cheaper but also more in common. Here it's rafinery sugar, which also explains especially on products like Dr. Pepper, why they taste different - in that case, better in the U.S.
That was a FANTAstic video
@@RuslanKvitnevyi clever!!🎉
@@IWrocker not really
Couldnt believe my ears when i heard that you got our tropical flavor from Macedonia. Great video as always!
Exotic was Danish as far as I could see (w/some German text).
Same with the Strawberry/Kiwi
And the Lemon one
It makes sense. There is a large exporting soda production from The Coca Cola Company in Denmark. Water is clean and plenty in Denmark. When consumers increasingly will focus on emission free made products they also will be able to use that as a selling point since over 60% of Denmark´s electricity are emission free, primarily coming from offshore windmills and soon that number will rise to over 100% and Denmark will become a permanent exporter of emission free energy.
Apparently it is produced by Coca Cola Germany in Berlin for the Danish market
@@A._Meroy Must be canned for the cross border trade then. VAT and duties are lower in Germany, so people cross the border to stock up on beer and soda.
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The Netherlands here:
When I see all those sodas I like having a fresh glass of milk
😂👍
milk contains alot of sugar
Hi,
Its not same company in US and EU. I used to work in Coca Cola in Czech republic and the company was officially called Coca Cola HBC (Hellenic bottling company) and originated in Greece. Coca Cola company (as in the US) manufactures sodas in USA and licences the branding in different regions. In the warehouse/bottling line I was working at were like 10 or 15 people from the US company. So, its licensed (just like Monster energy, Sprite, etc.) and they can even be totally, because different people different taste I guess.
Other example Monster energy samples made here in Prague were always sent to US Coca cola approved lab for testing. (it was every 2 or 3 months and it was the only drink - dont ask me why)
And even if they had same ingredients they would taste different because of different water - same with beer.
Keep up the good work and videos!
@@karelpokorny4727 Thank you for that insight, interesting information behind the scenes.
You make great points 🎉
They license the syrup, the other ingredients are, mostly, local, water/ sugar etc, thats why, even in EU the beverages are slightly different.
Fanta Exotic has the tastes of passion fruit and peach
Thessaloniki Greece here. I wasn't surprised by the variety of europian fanta you found at the US as much as by how you found these tiny 125ml glasses to try them with. These glasses are standard in Turkey (slim waisted as they call them) for drinking their famous tea (demli çay as they call it) and are hard to find in the rest of the world. Except maybe where there are Turks in the world to use them for their tea. Amazing...
Tip:
Mix Fanta Exotic with Cola. Roughly 1:1.
Regular Fanta also works out.
Yh you can get that at Burger King Belgium 🇧🇪
mix lemon fanta with red wine 1:1. Enjoy your summer cocktail :)
Why
Fanta exotic was my go-to drink as a child when going for Fanta product.
What is in your cola as we have no "high fructose corn syrup".. And I am in the UK 😂😂😂
here are some fanta flavours i found in local supermarket yesterday there are at least the same amount again but not able to locate them. Orange: The original Fanta flavor, which was created in 1955
Strawberry: A popular flavor
Grape: A popular flavor
Peach: A popular flavor
Pineapple: A popular flavor
Pina Colada: A popular flavor
Berry: A popular flavor
Fruit Twist: A flavor available in 2 liter bottles
Icy Lemon: A flavor available in 2 liter bottles
Exotic: A flavor that includes orange, passionfruit, and peach
The US Fanta drinks remind me of some of the drinks we used to buy as kids in the UK back in the 70s and 80s. Same sort of colours and the ingredients also included syrup as far as I can recall. I'm surprised that this type of drink is still being sold in the US in 2024. It is genuinely worrying!
Literally literally every soda on the planet is made of a syrup. You mix coke zero syrup with carbonated water to make coke zero. Yes sodas are basically squash. This is how drinks machines work exactly. One nozzle dispenses carbonated water the other drink syrup.
High fructose corn syrup in American drinks is just sugar from corn instead of sugar cane, it's not unhealthy or bad for you more than other sugar.
French born in 1990 here , Fanta orange was also like the one in the US , i noticed the change a few years ago when buying and drinking fanta , i still remember the old chemical taste .
Fanta Orange is available in most restaurants that have Coke Products. You can get many more Fanta flavors if they have Freestyle Machine but Orange is the Default flavor and my favorite.
saw one of them was a danish bottle, the excotic one :)
here the ingredients in the Excotic one:
Ingredients: Water, sugar, concentrate juice 3% (orange 2,6%, passion fruit 0.2%, peach 0.2%), carbon dioxide, orange extract, acidity regulator (E330), fruit and vegetable extracts (blackcurrant, carrot, aronia, shrubs, lemon, safflower), natural aromas.
Watching this, I just realized something. Every time I eat take-away from McDonalds, the drink makes me cough and leaves that slimy feeling in my throat. But the same doesn't happen with take-away from Burger King. And that's probably because over here Burger King gives the European bottled drink when you order take-away - while McDonalds gives the drink from their machine, which is syrup-based. (So the drink being suryp-based, even here in Europe with no red 6 or what ever, REALLY affects the taste and texture of the drink.)
Also the amount of syrup is depending on the machine settings, maybe it mixes in extra syrup
So you still get good drinks from your mcdonalds. All the mcdonalds drinks in the UK taste like fucking asshole because it's all sweetener and too diluted..
When I grew up here in Germany, Fanta used to publish special cans during certain times of the year with Fanta Mango and I fondly remember them and their flavor. Nowadays they've added many flavors.
DK = Denmark
DE = Germany
But as I know, the danish is also produced in Germany
in this case the cans are from the border markets in Germany produced for Danes. so: yes, they are German but all the text is danish
The blue Fanta Is called Fanta shokata. And From southeast Europe (Balkans)Lemon elderflower taste. And actually only the bottle Is blue the Drink itself Is slightly yellow.
The "german" Fanta appears to be originally distributed in Denmark. But the distribution of Fanta in this region of Europe is handled from germany, so that's why there are the .de endings.
we have the beetlejuice versions here in eu aswell, in cans, the one with beetlejuice himself is apple lychee flavored
The Excotic is produced in Fredericia Denmark and exported to Germany to be sold at the border shops. It only contains natural fruit juices and sugar, nothing else.
It is not true that it only contains natural fruit juices and sugar, because there are also these things.
Water
Carbon dioxide
Acidity regulator (E330)
And
Stabilizer (E445, E414)
I bought fanta pineapple in the Netherlands till i saw that it has high fructose corn syrup in it and 0% juice so i switched to a danish pineapple soda with sugar and 7% juice. Tastes way better and is refreshing. If you ever see soda by Harboe try their pineapple drink.
The strawberry kiwi fanta seems to be danish too.
A lot of those scary chemical names are just the formal names of food components. Isobutyric acid, for example, is one of the compounds in vanilla (amongst other foods), which makes sense in a pineapple drink. The US uses formal names for handling food intolerances while the EU (because of language differences across the single market) uses a number based system commonly called ‘E Numbers’ (each compound that’s approved for human consumption is given a number like E150, which is caramel).
The actual dangerous part of those drinks is the monosaccharide sugar content, not the formally named food components.
I should clarify that sodium sorbate and calcium sorbate are banned in Europe, and I’m certainly not saying that all the additives are great for you. I’m just pointing out that simply having an E number or a scary name doesn’t mean it is necessarily bad for you. If I told you that Orangina contained high quantities of Methylpropenylcyclohexene, many would refuse to drink it. But I’ve just told you it contains the main essential oil that gives orange juice its flavour and frankly I’d be more worried if it didn’t contain it.
Fanta Tropical use to be marketed as a completely different soft drink brand called Lilt in the UK & Ireland. The full sugar version makes a decent homemade slushie.
Somehow us Europeans are just winning by doing nothing
The US is very much a corporate state , corporations lobbying everything and screwing over people , US population doesn't seem to realize yet !
UK Fanta flavours are normally Orange, Lemon, Fruit Twist (similar to the Exotic I think) and Pineapple and Grapefruit (the pineapple and grapefruit one used to be branded as 'Lilt' but changed to Fanta recently). That Apple one is currently available as a limited product, too, but only as a Zero product (which has artificial sweetners instead of sugar) and it seems to be the only one with artifical colours (brilliant blue E133).
I envy the Elderflower one you had on the other video. I love elderflower and I might have to track that one down from one of the local European Supermarkets!
USA orange Fanta is the colour of the orange peel, whereas the European orange Fanta is the colour of the orange juice.
That seems to be a theme among American fruit based soft drinks.
By this theory rhe berry one should hVe been purple as nixibg the red and lue skins feom lueberrys Nd rhe other ones and rhe apple was ore clorophylic green thsn the nice jellowish green peal of green apple
Co cloution ifen if oloring after the peals was the i tent they failed
@@YukiTheOkami Dude, spellcheck...
Fun fact: when something tastes "synthetic" it's because it's not synthetic enough. The aroma of something like a fruit is a lot of different aroma compounds in often very precise ratios, so while you synthetically could fairly easily make something that is the exact same flavor as the natural equivalent, it's just expensive and hard to get right. So producers oftentimes skimp out to save money. Things like strawberry and water melon especially are notorious for being hard and/or expensive to get right, whereas raspberry is pretty much just one single ketone responsible for all the aroma in a raspberry.
Which is also why so much candy is raspberry flavored, it's pretty much the perfect compound for candy.
Is US Fanta short for Fantasy? As in if you think this has anything to do with fruit juice you are living in a fantasy.
Fantastic/y is the origin for the name, but Fanta was developed in Germany.
Actually it's short for German fantasy. Fanta was a German brand during WW2. Originally it was made with apple juice and whey. Today's Fanta original recipe was made in Italy in the 50s
That Beetlejuice-themed Fanta - we have an equivalent version here in the UK (called Fanta Afterlife), which I tried out. The ingredients list on the UK version is below:
Carbonated Water
Apple Juice from Concentrate (3.32%)
Acid (Citric Acid)
Vegetable and Fruit Concentrates (Sunflower, Lemon)
Natural Flavourings,
Sweeteners (Cyclamates, Acesulfame K, Sucralose)
Preservative (Potassium Sorbate)
Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrates)
Colour (Brilliant Blue FCF)
While not completely free of artificial stuff (as a sugar-free option, it can't be completely "clean"), it DOES have actual fruit juices in, unlike your US version.
I don't really care for Fantas, but Exotic is easily one of the best Fanta flavors.
I miss some of your other kinds of content, like the sim driving, but if soda tasting is hot right now, please taste Moxie, my favorite!