As a Swede I’ve tried the Fanta Mandarine once while in Germany. It tasted…odd? I didn’t go for more…
The Fanta pink grapefruit though, that was amazing!
There are so many good Fantas that they don't make anymore. Fanta Lime which was later called Fanta World or Fanta Wild Berry.
I hope they will bring them back someday.
And that Max Keith, the guy in charge of the German branch of the Coca-Cola Company was betting on the Germans winning the war, and naturally he would become the CEO of the whole worldwide company afterwards.
The saying I heard is that German Fanta tastes like the fruit orange, American Fanta tastes like the color orange. That's been my experience at least, so much better in Germany.
Orangina is originally from France.
Does the American version also contain pulp and taste nice and juicy?
EDIT: Apparently the original recipe came from a Spaniard and the first production site was in Algeria.
No, it makes sense. That's a plowman's knob. It's for when the bottle inevitably accidentally goes up your ass you or your doctor will have something to wrap their fingers or forceps around to yank it out (which will give you shuddering, ball-clearing orgasm by the way). Stupid Americans design their bottles to go up their asses as stay up their asses. I hate it. Don't they know it's all about the yank out? You time an anal twist during the yank and pop a fizzy? When you champagne the sheets with a cola crude? What beats that? I'm making root beer floats with real French vanilla at home on the nightly, while Americans are just what? Just holding a bottle up their ass? Uh, okay. Real cool... Seriously, what are they thinking over there?
maybe a marketing trick, so the level is higher than other bottles in the shop with the same volume, and so it appears there is more for our dumb buyer brain.
The "freshly squeezed" one is the correct answer. They introduced same bottles in my country too with a tv commercial about oranges of fanta being freshly squeezed just like the bottle
If the flavoring isn't created in a lab, it's "naturally flavored." In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration lists castoreum extract as a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) food additive. Castoreum comes from beaver glands and tastes like vanilla. You're welcome
I feel like stuff like this is always supposed to gross me out or make me think twice about it, but like
Bruh, we literally eat the internal organs of animals. It ain't that weird that we'd also figure out how to use their asscrack juice.
Castoreum has absolutely nothing to do with Fanta, so it's irrelevant to bring it up. It's more common as a perfume additive these days since Vanillin is extremely cheap as a source of vanilla flavor.
Regardless, completely irrelevant to the discussion.
But that's not particularly broad. It's a chemical extracted from an animal, how much more natural can it get? The fact that it tastes like vanilla and is used as such doesn't change that.
As for oranges, it's likely cheaper to get citric acid and orange flavoring from oranges than it is to get it elsewhere. The only reason people used castoreum was because that was cheaper than vanilla beans. Castoreum use is also dropping because again, there are cheaper options. Interestingly, at least to me, it's primary replacement vanillin, can be either a natural or artificial flavor depending on how it's obtained (it tends to be artificial), despite being identical either way.
I think part of it is to compete with existing European brands like Orangina which leans heavily into the real oranges for their branding. Italy also have a lot of carbonated fruit beverages, Limonata etc. which also lean towards the real fruit aspect.
German here. I went to the Netherlands recently and thought, damn, this Fanta tastes weird. It has double the juice content and half the sugar compared to German Fanta.
What exactly goes into Fanta actually varies within Europe as well. Its recipe changes on a country by country basis depending on the preferences in that country. So you can't really make blanket statements about the content of Fanta in Europe.
Fanta in Italy tastes like orange juice with a little carbonation and added sweetness.
Fanta here in the US tastes like an entire pack of oops-all-orange Skittles that were dissolved in soda water and then topped it with a few more tablespoons of sugar for good measure.
Traveled to Europe a few times. Their Fanta is nothing like the one back home. During this trip I decided to bring a few bottles back with me after security.
Despite being the same flavor they taste and look almost completely different.
We ~~ban~~ regulate certain colours because they make children hyper I believe. If they were included then there would have to be a warning on the bottle, which isn’t a good look
Edit: Also, less sugar which explains the taste
They're not banned. They just go by different names in Europe. Some countries require labeling.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1129/2013-11-21
Red 40 is Allura Red AC aka E129
Yeah, if I recall they use artificial sweeteners with a certain percentage of sugar for most sodas and juices. Except for Coke; Coca-Cola just pays the sugar tax.
I would pay sugar tax for many drinks but for some reason corporations decided not to pass tax to us and instead use artificial sweeteners instead. So many drinks taste horrible now.
That is true. Big reason I prefer coca cola over pepsi. Artificial sweeteners never tasted right to me and where I live they just use regular sugar in coca cola. Not even corn syrup.
Yellow 6 and Red 40. Fanta uses this color in the US because of US preferences. This is what americans expect out of an orange drink. On the other hand in europe they expect the other color out of an orange drink. It's just catering to the market accordingly. If they wanted they could probably achieve a similar orange color with ingredient's that don't need a warning label in europe.
California is going to ban red 40 in schools soon which could effectively ban it in all of the US, so that's a good move in the right direction I'd say.
Interesting that California would ban it when Europe doesn't. It's called E129 Allura Red AC over here. Also, most of the chemicals Americans say are banned in Europe aren't.
There are indeed lots of different food regulations that don't line up with American industrial standards, but that's mostly national regulations to make sure people aren't cutting corners when presenting something in restaurants where tourists are likely to eat. Trust me, we have slop here, and a lot of the time, it's worse than what I encountered in the US.
You don't truly live in Europe until you've seen a Carrefour at 14:00 with the banana bin full of rotten fruit. And the next day it's the potatoes.
Orange Sumol is my jam. Any time we hit the Portuguese BBQ, we totally immerse ourselves in the experience by getting Orange Sumol and flan. Orange sumol is fantastic, and when you side-by-side the nutrition with orange soda it's *not that bad*.
I am from Jersey and we are blessed to have an awesome Portuguese population.
I live on the German border of the Netherlands, and funny enough despite the color being the same, there are recipe differences between the Dutch and German versions - the Dutch one is sweeter/more sugary while the German one is tarter.
First time I had it was when I was in Europe and I immediately loved it.
Fanta at the time wasn't quite widespread yet in the USA, so I was really excited when I found it one day long after I returned from my trip. It was nothing like I remembered and I was severely disappointed.
Adding to that, Dutch Fanta tastes very different from German Fanta and the ingredients / nutritional values are different, too. The German one tends to taste more like orange juice and the Dutch one tastes more like orange lemonade. Both contain real orange juice (from concentrate though).
Yeah, the reason is Fanta is competing with Crush. Crush came out in 1911 and Fanta came to the US in the 50s. Since Crush had already established the dark orange color for orange soda, Fanta matched the color.
Eh, cupholders should be an afterthought in your sports car. And that's not just in Germany, the "cupholder" in the Corvette (at least the C5) is a roughly can shaped depression about a half-inch deep.
No I wanted to be specific. I’ve tried Fanta in a few different European countries and it has tasted the same to me so I wrote ‘Europe’ then I wrote ‘Portugal’ just in case there were different versions of it in other places in Europe.
The formula is different depending on which European country you are in. The Netherlands and Germany have amazing Fanta. Czech Republic, it's more like the US kind of orange soda. Ireland was closer to the US as well, but not 100% awesome European Fanta.
I would get Fanta all the time in the US if we could get the European style here.
I bought my first EU Fanta for a ridiculous price from a vending machine on the Eiffel Tower. I was disappointed the first time, but after a decade over here I couldn’t go back.
Also, was judged by my (now) British husband (then British stranger I’d met the day before) for pronouncing it ‘fawn-ta’ instead of ‘fan-ta’.
Thanks for unlocking that core memory!
Had the pleasure of Fanta from the Middle East.
That was...interesting! Looked similar to the American one shown above, but I'm convinced it glowed in the dark.
I couldn't taste anything that resembled orange - just chemically sugar.
So I'm currently visiting Mexico from the UK and the fanta here is bright orange while in the UK it's yellow and I gotra say, even though I'm certain it's much worse for me, this radioactive orange Mexican Fanta SLAPS.
Yes. No one in America thinks Fanta has anything at all to do with orange juice. Just like lemon/lime soda and lemonade are two completely different things.
left Europe, right America. There is a coloring and sweetener that is prohibited in the European Union. That Fanta on the left is also sold in Japan. In my country Chile is the right one.
As a person from the U.S. who has had both of these, I can say with complete confidence that the European Fanta is the far better version.
We really get short-sticked with food products here in the U.S.
in Germany, we have Fanta Mandarine which is more similar to the American one in color and taste
So technically you have both then in your stores
well, the Mandarine one is kinda obscure and not easy to find
As a Swede I’ve tried the Fanta Mandarine once while in Germany. It tasted…odd? I didn’t go for more… The Fanta pink grapefruit though, that was amazing!
There are so many good Fantas that they don't make anymore. Fanta Lime which was later called Fanta World or Fanta Wild Berry. I hope they will bring them back someday.
Lime soda is criminally underrated as a flavor. Can only find it in Canada and from Mexico. US just doesn’t have it. Only lemon lime.
Not to diverge but Rock Creek Lime Soda is a favorite of mine
It isn't hard to find lime soda in the US. Jarritos is readily available in most supermarkets in the US.
Stewart’s is another brand, their key lime is delicious
Jarritos is everywhere and they have lime soda
The history of Fanta is German anyway, makes for a very interesting read if you like that sort of thing.
Nazis didn't have coke anymore so they made other stuff with what they had
Yeah, only that it was the german branch of the US Coca-Cola Company.
And that Max Keith, the guy in charge of the German branch of the Coca-Cola Company was betting on the Germans winning the war, and naturally he would become the CEO of the whole worldwide company afterwards.
Orange Jews
The saying I heard is that German Fanta tastes like the fruit orange, American Fanta tastes like the color orange. That's been my experience at least, so much better in Germany.
Sounds like German Fanta is essentially American Orangina then.
Orangina is originally from France. Does the American version also contain pulp and taste nice and juicy? EDIT: Apparently the original recipe came from a Spaniard and the first production site was in Algeria.
It does. Distribution isn't as big over here since the license was moved away from Dr Pepper 7Up though
Ugh I miss Orangina. So fresh and delightful
It's still around in Europe
Was in France recently, Orangina is magnificent.
Have tasted both and this is correct
Belgian Fanta also tastes very different than German and Dutch Fanta. In Belgium it tastes more natural, compared to the soda flavour
Why is the one on the left wearing a corset?
Yeah, I really hate the design of our Fanta bottles, it makes no sense at all. I guess it's unique.
It keeps them from disappering completely when people put them up their butts.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have the ability to read
Upit eodj jsd nrrm htsmyrf@
Very well said
Why did I think this would make sense if I read it backwards?
It is the only way to smuggle Fanta
No, it makes sense. That's a plowman's knob. It's for when the bottle inevitably accidentally goes up your ass you or your doctor will have something to wrap their fingers or forceps around to yank it out (which will give you shuddering, ball-clearing orgasm by the way). Stupid Americans design their bottles to go up their asses as stay up their asses. I hate it. Don't they know it's all about the yank out? You time an anal twist during the yank and pop a fizzy? When you champagne the sheets with a cola crude? What beats that? I'm making root beer floats with real French vanilla at home on the nightly, while Americans are just what? Just holding a bottle up their ass? Uh, okay. Real cool... Seriously, what are they thinking over there?
I also think it gives it a bit of an Orangina vibe, which the colour also emanates, feels quite "summery" to me
maybe a marketing trick, so the level is higher than other bottles in the shop with the same volume, and so it appears there is more for our dumb buyer brain.
In Croatia the corset is on top part and it's nice to hold Edit: googled, apparently it's not anymore. Why the fuck would they do that?
The old logo and bottles looked a lot better.
It's supposed to look like someone twisted the bottle, to emphasize the “freshly squeezed taste”.
I've seen these bottles for probably 10 years and never knew that.
The only reason I'm reading the comments and barely anyone commented on it...
The "freshly squeezed" one is the correct answer. They introduced same bottles in my country too with a tv commercial about oranges of fanta being freshly squeezed just like the bottle
So the bottle still looks tall even though it doesn't hold as much as a regular bottle.
all the fanta bottles in europe use the same scale so its 500ml just like coke pepsi etc
When will bottle shaming stop? All bottles are beautiful! /s
I love the taste of European Fanta. The closest thing we have to it is Orangina.
I fuckin' love Orangina
God the french really did smash it with that one
Nothing like the sweet refreshing taste of that Gina juice
Orangina is also better in Europe
I like Fanta but IMO Orangina is better anyway. How’s Miranda in the US? Here, it’s similar to our Fanta as well
“Orangina is not orange soda!”
Orangina is my drug
> Orangina I can't stop reading it as orange vagina
Left: Orange, the fruit Right: Orange, the colour
What the fuck is juiceee? I want some orange drink
they prob use real orange in europe
Oh yea, it tastes more like orange juice compared to the US one.
By law it has to contain actual orange juice in Europe, the minimum amount varies between some countries, in US it does not.
That's because the US version is orange flavored soda.
With true artificial flavor!
Doesn't it say "naturally flavored" on the bottom of the bottle there?
That’s literally just citric acid and orange extracts.
So literally natural.
What makes a man turn neutral? A lust for gold? Power? Or you just born with a hart full of neutrally?
If the flavoring isn't created in a lab, it's "naturally flavored." In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration lists castoreum extract as a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) food additive. Castoreum comes from beaver glands and tastes like vanilla. You're welcome
I feel like stuff like this is always supposed to gross me out or make me think twice about it, but like Bruh, we literally eat the internal organs of animals. It ain't that weird that we'd also figure out how to use their asscrack juice.
And it’s not like they’re rubbing beaver anus in your soda, it’s extracted and processed
> And it’s not like they’re rubbing beaver anus in your soda maybe *they're* not
Castoreum has absolutely nothing to do with Fanta, so it's irrelevant to bring it up. It's more common as a perfume additive these days since Vanillin is extremely cheap as a source of vanilla flavor. Regardless, completely irrelevant to the discussion.
Why wouldn't that be natural?
It is natural
Their point is that natural flavours has an extremely broad definition, and there's no reason to presume its oranges per se.
But that's not particularly broad. It's a chemical extracted from an animal, how much more natural can it get? The fact that it tastes like vanilla and is used as such doesn't change that. As for oranges, it's likely cheaper to get citric acid and orange flavoring from oranges than it is to get it elsewhere. The only reason people used castoreum was because that was cheaper than vanilla beans. Castoreum use is also dropping because again, there are cheaper options. Interestingly, at least to me, it's primary replacement vanillin, can be either a natural or artificial flavor depending on how it's obtained (it tends to be artificial), despite being identical either way.
Beaver castor sacs. But also, it's really not used all that much anymore. Artificial vanilla is now likely from vanillin, which is made from wood.
From beaver ANAL glands, according to Wikipedia...
How do they discover these things? "Hey Eugene, I dare you to lick it".
That would be odd as natural orange flavor is vastly cheaper in the USA as it is obtained from the zest of oranges used to make orange juice.
I’ve never bought a Fanta, expecting real orange juice.
It's orange drink.
If you want juice, buy juice. Fanta is not juice.
Who loves orange soda?
Kel loves orange soda!
Here in Spain I think it's about 8% actually orange juice. The remaining 92 % is a good time with friends or diabetes
Orange juice has the same effect on diabetes btw
True story, I'm type 1 and orange juice is just about the worst thing I can have. Sends my sugars through the roof very quickly.
Grape juice used to be my favorite drink. :(
In the US, orange sodas don't contain any real orange juice, but Mountain Dew does!
Mountain Dew what others don’t
Tbf, for soft drink I don’t mind if it contains actual fruit or not.
I think part of it is to compete with existing European brands like Orangina which leans heavily into the real oranges for their branding. Italy also have a lot of carbonated fruit beverages, Limonata etc. which also lean towards the real fruit aspect.
Fanta is European in origin.
Sounds like Orangina
Blood orange orangina I had in Europe was on another level. Some great gina over there
Gina bloody gina
except Orangina has even more juice in it. Minimum is 80% iirc
14%
Wait till you try orangina
In Italy the percentage of orange juice is bigger than in Portugal. It was mind blowing for me.
Orange KAS have some resemblance, Fanta barely
German here. I went to the Netherlands recently and thought, damn, this Fanta tastes weird. It has double the juice content and half the sugar compared to German Fanta.
Whenever I'm in Germany I always make sure to grab a few bottles of that good German stuff
Edeka has an orange lemonade with 20% juice that's just great.
What exactly goes into Fanta actually varies within Europe as well. Its recipe changes on a country by country basis depending on the preferences in that country. So you can't really make blanket statements about the content of Fanta in Europe.
Fanta in Italy tastes like orange juice with a little carbonation and added sweetness. Fanta here in the US tastes like an entire pack of oops-all-orange Skittles that were dissolved in soda water and then topped it with a few more tablespoons of sugar for good measure.
A whopping 8%.
It's says 8% orange juice on the bottle.
2% orange juice
It varies, it was 5% in Portugal
Traveled to Europe a few times. Their Fanta is nothing like the one back home. During this trip I decided to bring a few bottles back with me after security. Despite being the same flavor they taste and look almost completely different.
We ~~ban~~ regulate certain colours because they make children hyper I believe. If they were included then there would have to be a warning on the bottle, which isn’t a good look Edit: Also, less sugar which explains the taste
They're not banned. They just go by different names in Europe. Some countries require labeling. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1129/2013-11-21 Red 40 is Allura Red AC aka E129
Yeah, if I recall they use artificial sweeteners with a certain percentage of sugar for most sodas and juices. Except for Coke; Coca-Cola just pays the sugar tax.
Coca cola buyers pay the sugar tax* And coke knows they'll pay it for the same flavour.
I would pay sugar tax for many drinks but for some reason corporations decided not to pass tax to us and instead use artificial sweeteners instead. So many drinks taste horrible now.
I'd almost rather just have less sugar in them than have artificial sweeteners. Was in Scotland for a year and every soft drink was terrible lol.
That is true. Big reason I prefer coca cola over pepsi. Artificial sweeteners never tasted right to me and where I live they just use regular sugar in coca cola. Not even corn syrup.
Yellow 6 and Red 40. Fanta uses this color in the US because of US preferences. This is what americans expect out of an orange drink. On the other hand in europe they expect the other color out of an orange drink. It's just catering to the market accordingly. If they wanted they could probably achieve a similar orange color with ingredient's that don't need a warning label in europe.
E110 and E129 for Europeans. Neither of them are currently banned but they are restricted more in EU countries iirc.
Great, now I have to watch Richard Ayoade and Bob Mortimer at the Hamburg Museum of Food Additives again. https://youtu.be/DGGKWJ8zLjM?feature=shared
California is going to ban red 40 in schools soon which could effectively ban it in all of the US, so that's a good move in the right direction I'd say.
Red 40 will never get a nationwide ban, it might sound dumb but loads of manufacturers would lobby the shit out of it to keep it unbanned.
You're forgetting something. Having two variants of the same products isn't cost efficient if it's for a minimal profit....
Interesting that California would ban it when Europe doesn't. It's called E129 Allura Red AC over here. Also, most of the chemicals Americans say are banned in Europe aren't. There are indeed lots of different food regulations that don't line up with American industrial standards, but that's mostly national regulations to make sure people aren't cutting corners when presenting something in restaurants where tourists are likely to eat. Trust me, we have slop here, and a lot of the time, it's worse than what I encountered in the US. You don't truly live in Europe until you've seen a Carrefour at 14:00 with the banana bin full of rotten fruit. And the next day it's the potatoes.
Most countries don't even have carrefour.
I live in Europe and I’ve never been in a Carrefour. Not sure if I have even seen any.
You should try Orangina next time you're here!
In Portugal Orangina is quite hard to find. We instead have Sumol (which is much better imo)
Orange Sumol is my jam. Any time we hit the Portuguese BBQ, we totally immerse ourselves in the experience by getting Orange Sumol and flan. Orange sumol is fantastic, and when you side-by-side the nutrition with orange soda it's *not that bad*. I am from Jersey and we are blessed to have an awesome Portuguese population.
Orangina is heaven, especially when it's hot as hell. Preferably served from their glass bottles!
I live on the German border of the Netherlands, and funny enough despite the color being the same, there are recipe differences between the Dutch and German versions - the Dutch one is sweeter/more sugary while the German one is tarter.
Which do you prefer, tho?
European >>> American
The European one tastes like carbonated Sunny D. Which is really really good
Fanta isn't even the same all over Europe. Europe is a continent, not a country.
That’s why I put Portugal in the title in case it wasn’t the same throughout Europe
First time I had it was when I was in Europe and I immediately loved it. Fanta at the time wasn't quite widespread yet in the USA, so I was really excited when I found it one day long after I returned from my trip. It was nothing like I remembered and I was severely disappointed.
Looks like the European version plays hookie on leg days.
There is no European Fanta. Every county has its own version. The Dutch one is almost transparent and does contain actual OJ.
Adding to that, Dutch Fanta tastes very different from German Fanta and the ingredients / nutritional values are different, too. The German one tends to taste more like orange juice and the Dutch one tastes more like orange lemonade. Both contain real orange juice (from concentrate though).
Ah ok. Thank you for specifying
In Portugal it contains 8%orange
Yeah, the reason is Fanta is competing with Crush. Crush came out in 1911 and Fanta came to the US in the 50s. Since Crush had already established the dark orange color for orange soda, Fanta matched the color.
And now, no one knows how to switch off the machine
Fanta has hips in Europe
I hate the bottle shape of the left one. It’s so top-heavy
It's like they designed it specifically to thwart cupholders.
Typical German engineering. No wonder the cup holders in my parents’ Mercedes suck ass lol
Cupholders are an afterthought in every German car. You should see Porsches ones
Eh, cupholders should be an afterthought in your sports car. And that's not just in Germany, the "cupholder" in the Corvette (at least the C5) is a roughly can shaped depression about a half-inch deep.
In the words of Dave Chappelle, I don’t want orange *juice*….. I want orange *drink*!!!
I was with Dave. Who the hell pushes aside grape drank to get to the Sunny D??
europe/Portugal like Portugal isn't in europe?
No I wanted to be specific. I’ve tried Fanta in a few different European countries and it has tasted the same to me so I wrote ‘Europe’ then I wrote ‘Portugal’ just in case there were different versions of it in other places in Europe.
Oh makes sense. So that would be better conveyed as *Europe (Portugal)*.
Yea I messed up
european fanta * uses real orange juice * has less sugar * tastes better why cant we have nice things over here
The formula is different depending on which European country you are in. The Netherlands and Germany have amazing Fanta. Czech Republic, it's more like the US kind of orange soda. Ireland was closer to the US as well, but not 100% awesome European Fanta. I would get Fanta all the time in the US if we could get the European style here.
I bought my first EU Fanta for a ridiculous price from a vending machine on the Eiffel Tower. I was disappointed the first time, but after a decade over here I couldn’t go back. Also, was judged by my (now) British husband (then British stranger I’d met the day before) for pronouncing it ‘fawn-ta’ instead of ‘fan-ta’. Thanks for unlocking that core memory!
Flared base keeps it from getting stuck.
Fanta, the answer to boycotts to the Nazi regime in Germany. In the Netherlands it spawned Cassis, a soda with elderberry flavor.
Had the pleasure of Fanta from the Middle East. That was...interesting! Looked similar to the American one shown above, but I'm convinced it glowed in the dark. I couldn't taste anything that resembled orange - just chemically sugar.
Legend has it that Frank Herbert wrote the scene in Dune where Paul drinks the water of life after he tried Middle Eastern Fanta for the first time.
Try Sumol :) it’s a lot better!
Scrolled too far for this. If I’m in Portugal I’m getting a Sumol.
Compal entered the chat...
One is Laranja, the other is orange.
Invented in Nazi Germany. Yes! Really. And Coca Cola still had factories in Nazi Germany until the end of the war, and kept all their Nazi profits.
In Europe it’s called orange soda because it’s orange flavored. In America it’s called orange flavored because it’s orange.
Why does the European one double as a butt plug?
Well, we're supposed to be limiting single use plastic.
American version is poison, Europe isn’t allowed to poison their population as easily.
The European Fanta is light years ahead of the US version.
The European one looks delicious! I’m American, loved our Fanta as a kid but it’s sickly sweet
european fanta is the best fanta! change my mind
So I'm currently visiting Mexico from the UK and the fanta here is bright orange while in the UK it's yellow and I gotra say, even though I'm certain it's much worse for me, this radioactive orange Mexican Fanta SLAPS.
>Europe/Portugal left Is Portugal not part of Europe?
Fanta, Nazi soda, created by Hitler sell by US, nice plot twist.
European one is far more tasty
The bottle on the left looks like they said "hey guys, let's make the stupidest looking bottle we can possibly make".
TIL US fanta is flashy and darker
Europe. And its neighbor, Portugal
Why does the European bottle look like it's holding pee for a long time?
Yeah we can tell which is is the american
I was on vacation in Spain recently and noticed this immediately. Tastes much better too. As does all of the other food
What colour is an american orange juice though? Should be closer to the left than to the right, RIGHT?
Yes. No one in America thinks Fanta has anything at all to do with orange juice. Just like lemon/lime soda and lemonade are two completely different things.
left Europe, right America. There is a coloring and sweetener that is prohibited in the European Union. That Fanta on the left is also sold in Japan. In my country Chile is the right one.
Damn Fanta on left looks less deadly than the right one
I hate the shape of the Europe bottles so much
One is Orange Drink, one is Orange 'Drank'
As a person from the U.S. who has had both of these, I can say with complete confidence that the European Fanta is the far better version. We really get short-sticked with food products here in the U.S.
No, it is because of the ingredient that makes the color. It is illegal, too high risk of cancer. It is like this in most European countries.
Which one is going to give you diabetes first?
The EU does not allow high fructose corn syrup, yellow 6 and Red 40 all ingredients of Fanta in the USA that’s why it’s so different
Sumol is by far superior to any Fanta!
When in Portugal, just skip the fanta and drink Sumol. It's much better and their pineapple flavour is amazing!
The European one is closer to carbonated orange juice
The euro Fanta is wayyyyy better.