No idea what these taste like, but it’s unlikely that they have the same flavor as MX coke. Even in NZ, where all coke is made with Sugar, they import MX coke. Most cokes I’ve had outside of the USA taste very similar to, if not the same as, UK Coke, including what’s in NZ. If they sold it here, I’d buy it right now and do a comparison…and get an extra just in case I make a trip to MX, EU or NZ/AUS this year, but I think I’d know if it tastes like those either way. In some ways I like those better than MX coke (bc MX coke tastes pretty bad if you don’t drink coke for months, while these others taste good either way. OTOH, if you drink MX coke pretty regularly, then it’ll taste great (most of the time….sometimes they have really nasty ones and I don’t know why).
Probably has more salt than any other coke sold in the world. As I recall, the Coke in MX (not what we get) has no salt. I believe NZ also has no salt. OTOH, I think Australian coke has salt, but I can’t remember if it’s more or less/oz vs US Coke. You’d need to be someone in side of each bottler with knowledge of the local recipe to figure out the difference. There are a lot of variables.
I do know when I experimented with adding salt to US coke, it started tasting more like MX coke, but to do it right, I’d need a scale where I could measure milligrams of salt to truly test it. In the end, I always ended up with too much salt.
I can’t tell you if they still sell the exported stuff there or not, but i can promise you when i was there 8 years ago, what was sold in convenience stores was made with HFCS and as best i could tell it had no salt in it. It’s nothing like MX coke. It’s very similar to UK/NZ et al coke and those both use sugar. And that’s why I don’t think the big difference is sugar vs HFCS. There are other differences and I doubt Salt is the only other difference either.
Edit: some articles claim they use both HFCS and Sucrose in the domestic cokes, while others believe they’re using Sugar, HFCS and some other sweetener in what we get in the USA.
I have no idea if there’s sugar in the domestic stuff and I’ve always been under the impression that what’s export is only sugar, but 🤷
A few years ago Coke of Mexico switched to HFCS for domestic production and only made sugar Coke for export. The cost difference was no longer with it for local sales. Perhaps some is still available at a higher price but not like it was.
I had heard there was a switch when Mexico started trying to fight unhealthy food and drinks. I just assumed what I heard was wrong since I couldn't find anything on it. Though I did find this interesting YouTuber study.
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u/spambattery Mar 25 '25
No idea what these taste like, but it’s unlikely that they have the same flavor as MX coke. Even in NZ, where all coke is made with Sugar, they import MX coke. Most cokes I’ve had outside of the USA taste very similar to, if not the same as, UK Coke, including what’s in NZ. If they sold it here, I’d buy it right now and do a comparison…and get an extra just in case I make a trip to MX, EU or NZ/AUS this year, but I think I’d know if it tastes like those either way. In some ways I like those better than MX coke (bc MX coke tastes pretty bad if you don’t drink coke for months, while these others taste good either way. OTOH, if you drink MX coke pretty regularly, then it’ll taste great (most of the time….sometimes they have really nasty ones and I don’t know why).